“It is curious that one can always recognize a blind person, even if his eyes are not closed or if there is no other visible defect to betray the absence of eyesight, by the upright posture of the head which is characteristic of the blind; it seems to imply a perpetual effort to discern something in the night which envelops the blind man.” (394)
- I found the section about the blind man and eyesight to possibly allude to religion. I took the absence of eyesight in this section as how the blind man may not follow Christianity and how his head’s upright posture showed a sort of ignorance in the eyes of the cousin.
2. The connection to the ideas of physiognomy and reading others to learn about their fates was direct in this text and I believe the religion aspect was strongly there as well.