Carver, an unnamed man tells the story of a blind man who visits his long time friend, the narrator’s wife. The blind man, Robert, met the narrator’s wife 10 years prior when she worked as a reader to the blind. Robert, who lost his wife, Beulah, is on his way to spend the night in the narrator’s home. The narrator highlights that Beulah had also worked for Robert as a reader to blind the summer after the narrator’s wife stopped working for him. The narrator, not too enthusiastic about the visit, quickly…
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