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Why did the narrator's wife leave her first husband? What qualities in the narrator might have led his wife to marry him?

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Toward the end of the story, the blind man asks the narrator to describe a cathedral. Why is the narrator unable to do so? What does his inability to do so reveal about him?

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At several points in the story, the narrators wife loses patience with him. What causes her displeasure? What do her reactions reveal about the wife? about the narrator?

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Why is the narrator's wife so devoted to the blind man? What does she gain from her relationship with him?

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Why does the blind man tell the narrator to close his eyes while he is drawing? What does he hope to teach him? What is the narrator able to "see" with his eyes shut that he cannot see with them open?

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According to the narrator, his wife never forgot the blind man's running his fingers over her face. Why is this experience so important to her?

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In paragraph 96, the blind man observes that the men who began work on a cathedral never lived to see it completed. in this way, he says, "thry're no different from the rest of us." What does the cathedral symbolize to the blind man? What does it come to

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In paragraph 96, the blind man observes that the men who began work on a cathedral never lived to see it completed. in this way, he says, "thry're no different from the rest of us." What does the cathedral symbolize to the blind man? What does it come to

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In paragraph 96, the blind man observes that the men who began work on a cathedral never lived to see it completed. in this way, he says, "thry're no different from the rest of us." What does the cathedral symbolize to the blind man? What does it come to

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What constitutes the climax of this story?

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How does Carver use foreshadowing in describing the baker's character in the first section of the story?

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What do you know about the author of this of the innermost part from reading it?

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