In four pages this story is examined in terms of its depiction of the human condition's loneliness and how relationships can be hampered by stereotypes and appearances. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.
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he came to stay with the narrator. However, when reading the story it soon becomes apparent that it is not the story itself that matters the event may be easily
replaced, it is the characters. The narrator is telling us about the characters, who they are and how they have become who they are. The continued interaction between the characters
is seen as the only constant though the story, apart from the blindness of the visitor. The character driven plot then has a message that is harsh, the unsatisfactory nature
of human relationships, how idealism and hope are often turned to despair, with relationships failing to achieve the closeness and warms that those involved expect. The relationships appear to be
better when those involved cannot be distracted by appearances and how stereotypes can be wrong (Bugeja, 1986). Like many other sis is a story of the loneliness of the human
condition (Howe, 1983) This is seen in the way that the narrators wife first meets the blind man. She is in love, her first love, who remains nameless thought the
entire story. She needs a job and see an advertisement to read to the blind man. When she gets the job she able form a friendship with the blind man
over that summer. However, it is interesting to note that he only asks to feel her face to get an idea of what she looks like when she is leaving
his employment. This was an important moment in the narrators life, she writes a poem about it describing the way his fingers felt her face. Although we do not see
the poem, we are told that it was not very good. She had shared it with the narrator, but he had not felt able to tell her it was not