... cathedral is an image that invites awe in viewers and readers. At the most, the image of the cathedral suggests the transformative powers that such a structure holds. Epiphany William Harmon and C. Hugh Holman in A Handbook to Literature define epiphany as "Literally a manifestation or showing-forth, usually of some ... she didn't like what she saw," he reports. A second way that Carver works collaboratively with the reader in building the text is through his parallel rendering of Robert, the blind man, and the narrator, a sighted man. The rendering is, of course, ironic. Robert clearly ...

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