The authors of "Raymond's Run" and "Cathedral", both use a first person point of view in their short stories. In "Raymond's Run", by Toni Cade Bambara, the first person point of view shows how the narrator is dealing with the situations around her and maturing in the process. In "Cathedral", by Raymond Carver, the reader can see the change in the narrator's understanding of the blind man through different situations that happens throughout the story. …showed first 75 words of 909 total…

…showed last 75 words of 909 total…the author uses the husband as the narrator because the author wants us to see how the husband interacts with the blind man and slowly understands him. With the first person point of view, the author generally wants their readers to get a more personal understanding of the narrator and how they see things. Therefore, in both these stories, the authors' purpose was to show the changes that occur to the narrators of each story.