Maya Angelou once said “We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders” (Goodreads, 2015). Prejudice is unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group (Prejudice, n.d.). Prejudices take many shapes and forms in today’s society. In Raymond Caver’s short story “Cathedral” we see a story that many can relate to. As the story begins, we meet three characters, the narrator, his wife and her friend, Robert. Robert and the narrator’s wife first met one summer in Seattle. She needed money and Robert needed someone to read to him since he was blind. She was hired on the spot. After working together that summer they became good friends, “Making tapes and mailing them back and forth to each other" (Lynn, p408). After Raymond’s wife dies, he is invited to spend the night with the narrator and his wife on his way to his dead wife’s relatives. The narrator wasn’t looking forward to Robert’s visit and was jealous of their relationship, “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me” (Lynn, p408). The only thing the narrator knew about blind people was what he learned from the movies, “The blind moved slowly and never laughed” (Lynn, p408). The narrator’s disgust for Robert showed, even after his arrival to their home. It wasn’t until they were eating dinner that the narrator started having a change of heart about Robert. “I watched with admiration as he used his knife and fork on the meat” (Lynn, p412). At dinner the narrator finally started seeing Robert as a person and not as a blind man. After dinner they went into the living room to catch up and chat with each other. The narrator thought Robert was getting tired, so he turned on the television. After watching the n