Redemption can be explained as taking possession of something in exchange for payment. To achieve something, you have to do something in return. The end result of redemption may be unknown to the person and the amount of its payment may be a sacrifice. This motif is relayed in the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, by a man who gains a new vision from an unlikely source. “Cathedral” consists of three individuals. The narrator is the main character around whom the story revolves. The narrator's wife is the second, least relevant character. The third character is the blind man, named Robert, who is a friend of the woman. The story introduced us to the narrator with him discussing how a blind man came to visit him and his wife. His wife and this blind man seemed to have a strong relationship as they sent each other tapes to stay in touch. The narrator didn't like the idea of ​​this blind man being company. “I wasn’t excited about his visit,” he says. In his defense, this reaction would seem normal from a husband whose wife is friends with another man. Facknitz defends my assertion by recalling the time when the narrator's wife worked for the blind man and he let her touch his face (par. 17). The woman speaking to the narrator says, “She told me he ran his fingers over every part of her face, her nose and even her neck! She never forgot him. She even tried to write a poem about it. Facknitz mentions: “Obviously he is jealous and thus emphasizes the eroticism of the blind man's touch” (par. 18). Even though the narrator may not have many feelings towards the people in his life, he is rightly upset by the extent of the relationship between his wife and the blind man...... middle of paper ......-296. Rep. in contemporary literary criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Flight. 126. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. Information Resource Center. Internet. May 05, 2014.Henningfeld, Diane Andrews. "Cathedral." Short stories for students. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Information Resource Center. Internet. May 5, 2014. Bullock, Chris J. “From Castle to Cathedral: The Architecture of Masculinity in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral.” » The Journal of Men's Studies 2.4 (May 1994): 343-351. Rep. at the Literary Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Library Resource Center. Internet. May 06, 2014.Stern, Carol Simpson. “Cathedral: overview.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literary Resource Center. Internet. May 6, 2014. Mays, Kelly J. “The Norton Introduction to Literature.” Carver, Raymond. Cathedral. New York: WW Norton & Company, Inc..., 2013. 32-42.