cathedral of irony

the irony that shapes the story.

all throughout the story the narrator has a tinge of jealousy because he doesn't understand what is going on with his wife and the blind man. when his wife tells him about how she will always remember when he touched her face, he feels like she has some sort of feeling for the blind man that she doesn't have for him. he had never met never met blind man and when he heard he would be staying at their house, he didn't want to meet him. he was intimidated and uncomfortable with it.
and then when they are watching the show about cathedrals he feels sad for the man because he cannot see these beautiful buildings and feels compelled to explain them as best he can. then finally the man asks to draw it together. he tells the man to close him eyes and as they draw the cathedral together he understands the blind man, and what he understands beauty to be. he can't see beauty he has to feel and imagine it.
the irony is beauty, and the man is a metaphor for understanding it. when the blind man tells him to open his eyes to see if it looks like a cathedral, he doesn't open his eyes because he doesn't need to. it doesn't matter what it physically looks like, it feels beautiful.