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…showed last 75 words of 700 total…from his wife and that the focus now will be on the blind man only. His seems afraid of losing the normal attention he gets from his wife. Considering my statements above, I think that the writer, Raymond Carver wants to tell that even though some people are blind or handicapped, you have to accept them and treat them the same way as all other people you know. Compassion will rarely give any good results.