Cathedral City

This story is about a man named Robert who cannot see.  He comes to stay with his old friend because his wife, Beulah, passed away and he needs to visit her family.  His friend's husband is the narrator of this story and we see that he is very uncomfortable with the blind man staying in his house.  The narrator feels that there is a need to simplify and explain everything for the man who cannot see.  The narrator, wife, and Robert spend the evening together at their home and the night ends when Robert and the narrator (who is never named) draw a picture of a cathedral together.
The story, overall, is very poorly written- with grammatical errors on almost every page.  However, the message of the story is very clear to those who think: we are bound by ourselves.
1.  The narrator has never met the blind man, or dealt with blind people, and is indifferent to how the blind man, Robert, feels.  There could also be some feelings of jealousy between the narrator and his wife's best friend as they used to meet a lot and his wife cares about him deeply.  The unnamed narrator is perceived as a man with little tolerance, patience, or willingness to try new things.
2.  After reading the end of the story, it is very possible that the blind man simply wanted some sort of guideline as to how he wished to imagine the wife.  He uses the cathedral lines to help him imagine a cathedral and he would use her face to help him imagine her.  The wife wanted to commit suicide because she did not believe she was worth anything because her husband was never there to show that he cared.  The poetry is a way for her to deeply express her feelings while her attempted suicide was the final cry for help.
3.  To receive a friend means to make him feel as though you have known him as much as the other person.  The wife asks that the husband not judge Robert and treat him as one of his own.  Robert means a lot to his wife because he was the only one able to "see" her plight.  The narrator should be thankful for him because his wife might not be alive if she couldn't be seen by Robert.
4.  Robert was there for Beulah and could never judge her looks.  He was only ever exposed to the person of Beulah.  To see her means that she found a purpose in the world and that someone cared about her.  That person was Robert, and he would never make her change her appearance for him.  He must have loved her for who she is if they got married.
5.  The character's, specifically the narrator, smoke pot in order to think past their normal boundaries.  The blind man has little boundaries on what he can think/"see," because he has no perception of what frame he can think in since he has not seen anything- he is allowed to think whatever he wants.
6.  The people think about God as this impressive being.  Therefore, he deserves an impressive building.  People were unable to associate anything else with God because they cannot find impressiveness in other objects besides large hulking cathedrals.
7.  The narrator can't describe a cathedral because he has never taken in its beauty.  At the end, with his eyes closed- the narrator draws whatever he wants on the paper.  He was not bound by any limit with his eyes closed and could have imagined the most impressive cathedral ever.  This freedom of the mind shocks him because he realizes that this is how Robert must "see" all the time.