The Carver article started off kind
of weird, with the fingering of the woman’s face by the old blind man. I agree with
the author that it is hard to judge poetry and its quality. The repetition of “blind
man” was an interesting choice, seeing how the same old man is spoken about,
but the author finds the need to keep reminding the reader that he couldn’t see.
Then her officer isn’t named – no one gets a name in this, only descriptors. These
details left me confused. The author really seems fixated on the “blind” part
of the man, and hating on his dead wife just because she sounded “colored”. The
part of the author and blind man smoking marijuana was entertaining as well.
Though the story is interesting, the
ending was quite strange. The ending actually started to bring the subject of ‘art’
into the story, but I was confused why the author kept his eyes shut. I guess
it would be so that he could see what the blind man saw, namely nothing, but it
seemed pointless for me.
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