Blog Entry 9

I have to wonder if being blind makes Robert a better listener. Perhaps the reason that the wife liked him so much is because he always listens to what she says. Maybe being blind, he has a whole new perspective on things that she would never think of. I think that is what happens in those tapes. She knows that he would listen, and that he would offer her something totally enlightening. I think that is how the husband feels at the end, too. He didn’t know much about blind people, so he felt uncomfortable around one. He didn’t know what to say, or how to act. Robert then offered him his company, which apparently people don’t usually do. They smoked together, watch TV together. Then they draw together. At first I thought that was the weird part, or the supposedly-inspirational part in these kinds of story. But it wasn’t weird at all. The husband, in the end, learned something from the blind man. I think he had learned a lot more about being blind that he would ever have without meeting this blind man.