What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Short Story

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After analyzing Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," it is easy to see that there are several different ideas concerning true love that the characters in the story are in dispute over. Terri's idea of real love is the most valid out of the group at the table. All of the members of the group are rather confused as to what real love is. Terri is included as one of the confused. However, I believe that she is the closest to understanding what love is. A key piece of evidence demonstrating her understanding of love is her remark to Laura and Nick. She scolds the couple for basing their relationship on physical aspects, rather than emotion or passion. Terri, like the rest of the party, is on her second marriage.

Raymond Carter speaks about two different types of love in the Story What We talk About When We Talk About Love. The two types of love are spiritual and true love. Spiritual love is when you are connected with your significant half on a spiritual level. That could mean feeling like you can’t live without that person or just loving them so much that you would do anything to be with them. An example of true love is waking up every morning and making a cup of coffee not just for you but for you and your partner. However in the end True love is more dominant because people learn to love again as Raymond

After analyzing Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” it is easy to see that there are several different ideas concerning true love that the characters in the story are in dispute over. Terri’s idea of real love is the most valid out of the group at the table. All of the members of the group are rather confused as to what real love is. Terri is included as one of the confused. However, I believe that she is the closest to understanding what love is. A key piece of evidence demonstrating her understanding of love is her remark to Laura and Nick. She scolds the couple for basing their relationship on physical aspects, rather than emotion or passion. Terri, like the rest

In “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love”, Carver introduces us to four characters talking over gin. The narrator, Nick, was with his wife Laura at Mel’s house, a cardiologist, who has been remarried to a woman named Terri. After a few drinks in the kitchen, the topic of love is brought up. Each of the four individuals express their different views on what love is. Even though the setting was in Mel’s kitchen, flash backs from the individuals took us to different settings. These flashbacks helped us see how they viewed love. Terri talked about her past relationship with an obsessive, abusive man. When Terri talked about the night see was beaten you could see the scene play out in your head. Although he was abusive, threatened her life, and eventually took his own, Terri proclaimed, “He loved me. In his own way maybe, but he loved me. There was love there” (paragraph 5). Mel goes on to argue with Terri about her view of love and shares a story of the kind of love that he saw once. When Mel tells his story about love, you can visualize the older couple in the hospital and the old man desperately wanting to see his wife. After Mel describes the man lying in the hospital bed, barely able to see through the eye-holes of his bandage, he states, “I’m telling you, the man’s heart was breaking because he couldn’t turn his goddamn head and see his goddamn wife”

The short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, invalidates the struggles and the lives of women, especially those that have experienced abuse. Carver oppresses women through lack of empathy for a victim and reinforcement of certain stereotypes.

Another critical theme in this story is conversation. The entire setting is based on the conversation that these four friends have. Terri starts this conversation when she states that “the man she was with before Mel loved her so much he tried to kill himself” (4). This is very important to the context of the story because it begins the narrative. She goes on to explain her experiences with Ed. Specifically, the time he beat and dragged her through their home. As delusional as it sounds, Terri believes her idea of love is clear and exact and doesn 't budge when Mel suggests that she is wrong. “My God, don’t be silly. That’s not love and you know it” (6). Nick and Laura also believe they know the meaning of love. Laura states, "Well, Nick and I know what love is" (43). They demonstrate this not by words but through displays of affection such as holding hands and kissing. Terri disagrees with this. Love takes time to build and Nick and Laura are still in the "honeymoon" stages of love. "Stop that now. You 're making me sick. You 're still on the honeymoon, for God 's sake" (46). It is at this point, and the drinking continues and the day passes by, that the conversation and ideas of love become less coherent and precise. Mel

In Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” there was one theme that was consistent throughout the whole story. It is that not one of the four characters of the story could explain what love is. Each character in the story each had their own ideas to what they wanted love to be but not what it actually was. Whether it was suicidal love, abusive love, or just physical love, each person in the story held fast to what they believed love to be, even if they could not explain why.

What is Love? Does anyone really know the meaning of the word? Does it have a different meaning to different people? These are the questions that Carver’s four characters ponder over heavily flowing gin and deep conversation in the short story, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.” Carver characters discuss and debate the meaning of love throughout the story. I will explain what the different characters feel about love. The author shows there are different types of love and different levels of each type. He also proves that someone’s emotions for a person can change from love to hate and then back to love. The characters search for the true meaning of love throughout the story, and in the end, neither figure it out.

Despite each of their own different meanings of love, one thing the group has in common is that they all currently love the person they are married to, have been married to someone else before and probably loved other people before that too even. Mel agrees on the fact that he must have loved his ex-wife Marjorie too, just like Terri loved Ed, but has a hard time accounting for where that love went. Mel said “There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts” (Carver 655). While there

In the short story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (1981), we find that there is no singular definitive meaning of love, because love is perceived differently by the different characters. We also see that love may have stages and throughout all its complexities, people still hold onto their present love. In this story, we see the four characters, Mel and his wife Terri, Nick whom is the narrator and his wife Laura, all struggle to define what love truly is, while seated around a table drinking Gin. We will begin the analysis of love by looking at Terri’s meaning of love and then Mel’s, Laura and Nick’s love and then finally ending with the love of the old man, in the story that Mel shares with the group. This

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