This is evident in the narrator’s reaction, through Carvers writing, when he is informed that the blind man was coming to stay with them. Rather than reacting with a false guise of comfort, he instead replies sarcastically saying, “Maybe I could take him bowling,” (3) knowing full man the blind man couldn’t even see the pins, ball, or lane he would be playing in. This sarcasm extends from discomfort, and the narrator’s unwillingness to want to deal with the blind man’s presence. The narrator had never even met the man once in his life, and yet here this blind man is coming to live in his house, eat his food, and sleep in his bed. He does not pretend to be okay with this simply because his wife knew the blind man for so many years. Branching off from how long the wife and the blind man knew each other, there comes another emotion that we more readily relate to; jealousy. Although the narrator does not blatantly tell the wife or blind man that he is jealous, he does subtle things that show he is. He flips his wife’s robe close when it slips open; while his wife and the blind man are talking, he turns on and turns up the television. His thoughts show how he feels about them conversing, when he thinks “I waited in vain to
This is evident in the narrator’s reaction, through Carvers writing, when he is informed that the blind man was coming to stay with them. Rather than reacting with a false guise of comfort, he instead replies sarcastically saying, “Maybe I could take him bowling,” (3) knowing full man the blind man couldn’t even see the pins, ball, or lane he would be playing in. This sarcasm extends from discomfort, and the narrator’s unwillingness to want to deal with the blind man’s presence. The narrator had never even met the man once in his life, and yet here this blind man is coming to live in his house, eat his food, and sleep in his bed. He does not pretend to be okay with this simply because his wife knew the blind man for so many years. Branching off from how long the wife and the blind man knew each other, there comes another emotion that we more readily relate to; jealousy. Although the narrator does not blatantly tell the wife or blind man that he is jealous, he does subtle things that show he is. He flips his wife’s robe close when it slips open; while his wife and the blind man are talking, he turns on and turns up the television. His thoughts show how he feels about them conversing, when he thinks “I waited in vain to