Cathedral

    
 Raymond Carver uses the metaphor of blindness to say that sight isn't how you see the things that matter. I liked this metaphor and I think it is so true.  The husband was skeptical and judgemental of Robert for the majority of the story, yet when his wife fell asleep and he started talking to Robert, he was intrigued.  By the end, Robert had the husband describing a cathedral and even drawing one with his eyes closed.  The story finishes with the husband being perfectly content to not open his eyes again.  This is because he found that he could truly see and feel things when he couldn't see anything at all.  I think if we were to close our eyes or just shut out some distractions, we would begin to see the things that really matter.