Essays 1 - 30
This 8 page essay reviews to Raymond Carver's style in this work in relationship to his style in other works. 4 sources are cited...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
highly stylized, live-action staging of the cartoon characters of POPEYE (1980), director Robert Altman was banished from Hollywoo...
who are very young and very old and this paradigm really only involves an individuals life for an eighteen year time span. For exa...
characters and their quest for happiness, despite the fact their lives are typically mired in chaos and confusion. Carver presents...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...
In seven pages the numbing effects of alcohol as depicted in Raymond Carver's 'Why Don't You Dance,?' 'Gazebo,' and 'What We Talk ...
In three pages Raymond Carver's last short story is analyzed in terms of culture and setting. There are no other sources cited....
Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...
offers insight into the significance of the stranger for his role is to teach the narrator, to make him see in a very new and powe...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
able form a friendship with the blind man over that summer. However, it is interesting to note that he only asks to feel her face ...
In six pages the role class difference plays in these works is discussed. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of setting and character development. There is no bibliography included....
In a paper consisting of 8 pages the symbolism of blindness in this short story by Raymond Carver is discussed in terms of insight...
is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...
is duly noted is with the different names that people of all ethnic origins - including African-Americans themselves - use to iden...
love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...