Kathedrale by Raymond Carver

A working-class narrator reluctantly hosts his wife’s longtime blind friend, and through awkward conversations, jealousy and dull routines we see the narrator’s limited, defensive view of the world; when the pair sit together to draw a cathedral while the narrator closes his eyes, the experience opens him to a new way of seeing—connecting him to the blind man’s perception and offering a quiet, transformative moment of empathy and self-awareness.