My own work can be related to the original work in many different ways. First, it shows how the husband and narrator of the first story has changed since we last saw him. He has almost done a complete 180 degree turn. He sees life differently and even the most meaningless things he sees their true value. The husband also no longer sees the blind man in the stereotypical light he saw him in at first. He does not even view him as an equal, he views Robert as more intelligent and more absorbent of life than he could ever imagine being; despite the fact that he cannot see. The husband is obviously working on this part of his life in my continuation of the story. The couple’s relationship has evolved into the next level now that they have both been …show more content…
The nurse has an opportunity to go through the same process of drawing with Robert that the husband did in the first story and ends up feeling a similar feeling at the end. She gets the same feeling afterwards of really seeing for the first time in her life. There are three main points I am trying to get across that I also believe Raymond Carver may have been too. The first point is that not everything is as it seems. The stereotypes that we as a society form are not always correct, more often than not, the people we meet do not fall into those specifics. No two people are the same and so be careful judging a group of people based on one person’s behavior, what you see on TV or what someone tells you. The second point is that when you have a life changing experience try and give that opportunity to someone else. In the original story, the wife unknowingly brought Robert to the house to change her husband’s life in the way hers was changed. In my story, the husband allowed for the nurse to be changed by letting her be the one to draw with Robert. If we all just offered up some kind of opportunity to change to just one person, the world would be a different