“Cathedral” by Richard Carver focuses on managing and overcoming predispositions. On a more critical level, “Cathedral” exemplifies the difficult journey of marriage. Carver reveals the reality of close external friendships looming over marriage through disturbing insecurities, conflicting emotions, and ultimately leading to betrayal. Within the text we notice the invasive friendship between the narrator's unrevealed wife (the husband) and the blind character Robert. Their relationship gives rise to insecurities for the narrator, as has emerged over the course of ten years and many deep and revealing conversations. Robert and his wife have shared countless important and confidential moments of their lives with each other, but the narrator believes this to be a violation of the confidentiality of the marriage as he states "...she told him everything!" (1055). His anxiety is exemplified when Robert arrives and says he feels as if they have met before, which left the narrator spinning in wonder at what Robert saw. He is left with his furious emotions as he processes the warm embrace of his wife and Robert...