Without realizing it, he has created a struggle between a friend in whom he can confide but cannot love as a husband and a husband he can love as such but cannot confide in . The saddest part of the story, the one that finally shows the consequences of the wife's ineptitude, is the final scene. Waking from a deep sleep, she finds her blind man, her confidant, sharing a tense conversation with her husband, her greatest desire, as they draw a picture of a cathedral together. He makes his jealousy obvious when he exclaims, “What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know...What's going on?" like a child crying out to be heard (Carver 193). His desperate tone comes from the fact that he has to watch his heart's greatest desire manifest before his eyes, but in aloof. She wants so desperately to become part of the relationship forming between her husband and the blind man, but she can't. Once again she stays behind, this time spiritually as her husband experiences a revelation, while she remains in the darkness husband realizes the importance of letting people “into” one's life at the blind man's words: “Put some people there now. What's a cathedral without people,” but the wife does not (193). idea of ​​becoming part of their conversation, completely overlooks the relevance of the