His tone is so happy throughout the story because he is so happy to go to China to meet his new family members and also rekindle the old ones family members. «And I can't help myself. I'm also misty-eyed, like I saw it a long, long time ago and had almost forgotten about it. (264) He said this as he arrived in China, showing how happy he was. On the other hand, the main character who has no name in Cathedral is so bitter throughout the story. His wife even claims that he has no friends. The only time he didn't seem to be in a bad mood was at the end of the story, when he drew a cathedral with the blind man, so that the blind man could "see" what a cathedral looked like. Robert tells the man to draw with his eyes closed, then when he finished, he told him to open his eyes and tell him what the picture looked like, but it didn't. “My eyes were still closed. I was at my house. I knew it. But I didn't feel like I was inside anything” (42) Now he was different and had a better attitude towards the blind