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Raymond Carver/"Little Things" and "Mine"

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Babylon Revisited,' Raymond Carver's 'A Small, Good Thing' and Class Difference

In six pages the role class difference plays in these works is discussed. There are no other sources listed....

Raymond Carver's 'Where I'm Calling From,' 'Cathedral, 'A Small Good Thing' and the Theme of Communication

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

Two Short Stories on the Family

Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

Drinking, Love, Loss, and Raymond Carver

In seven pages the numbing effects of alcohol as depicted in Raymond Carver's 'Why Don't You Dance,?' 'Gazebo,' and 'What We Talk ...

'Errand' by Raymond Carver

In three pages Raymond Carver's last short story is analyzed in terms of culture and setting. There are no other sources cited....

Film and Book 'Short Cuts'

highly stylized, live-action staging of the cartoon characters of POPEYE (1980), director Robert Altman was banished from Hollywoo...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

A Small Good Thing

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...

Raymond Carver's Perspectives on Family

who are very young and very old and this paradigm really only involves an individuals life for an eighteen year time span. For exa...

Transience and Elasticity of Love

characters and their quest for happiness, despite the fact their lives are typically mired in chaos and confusion. Carver presents...

Raymond Carver's Short Stories and Relationships

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

Raymond Carver's Poems

to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

Writing Style of Raymond Carver

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

Significance of Strangers: Carver and Oates

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...

Franklin’s Inner Conflict and Resolution in Judy Troy’s Short Story, “Ten Miles West of Venus”

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...

Raymond Carver and His Stories

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...

The Extremes of Love and Hate as an 'All or Nothing' Proposition

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'

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 ...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral' and the Symbolism of Blindness

In a paper consisting of 8 pages the symbolism of blindness in this short story by Raymond Carver is discussed in terms of insight...

Raymond Carver's 'So Much Water So Close to Home'

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of setting and character development. There is no bibliography included....

Surface Mining Rapes the Landscape

Once virtually abandoned, surface mining for coal has made a resurgence after the energy crisis. Previously known as strip mining,...

Insight of a Blind Man in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....

How Love is Interpreted by Mel in 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' by Raymond Carver

out, inasmuch as one cannot love someone more than life itself. Indeed, this concept proves too great a burden for another person...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver and the Blind Man Robert

In five pages this short story by Raymond Carver is examined in an analysis of the blind character Robert and what he symbolizes. ...

'My Father's Life' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report analyzes 'My Father's Life,' a short story by Raymond Carver. Two sources are cited in the bibliography...

Carver and Capote - Driven Writers

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the works of Raymond Carver and Truman Capote. The writer considers why it is that author...