What We Talk About When We Talk About Love By Raymond Carver

In the story “The Student’s Wife” written Raymond Carver tells about the difficulties and problem in the relationship between Nan and Mike. Carson descriptively describes Nan, the wife, who is a mother that is full of responsibilities for taking care of her family and be the financial supporter in the family, and Mike, the husband, who is a student and in need of receiving enough sleep for the next day. The author explained that the character's are facing their own difficulties because Nan is going through a rough time and stressing about life since she wantss a luxurious, easy going life; meanwhile Mike is trying to his best to satisfy his wife and be there for her, but at the same time he wants to get enough rest. In the short story, the characters life encompasses confinement, desperation, and powerlessness.

“They’re not your husband” is a short story written by Raymond Carver and published in 1973. Raymond Carver is a minimalist writer, which provides his short stories with an economy with words, adverbs and a focus on surface description. This allows the context to dictate meaning. Therefore, the reader has an active role in the creation of the short story; to choose side based on inclined innuendo and hints.

The short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver, is about two married couples drinking gin and having a talk about the nature of love. The conversation is a little sloppy, and the characters make some comments which could either be meaningless because of excessive alcohol in the bloodstream, or could be the characters' true feelings because of excessive alcohol in the bloodstream. Overall, the author uses this conversation to show that when a relationship first begins, the people involved may have misconceptions about their love, but this love will eventually die off or develop into something much more meaningful.

Let the Circle be Unbroken portrays an african american family’s hardships against powerful white landowners and family tragedies. All in the perception of the strong-willed Cassie Logan. Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor is an enjoyable book with engaging characters, unpredictable plots, and an amusing genre.

Carver’s use of third person objective affects the story by helping his writing technique of extreme simplicity. Because we can’t see into any of the characters minds, less details are presented, leaving the story more plain. “‘I couldn’t wait’ he said. That night they made love again.” This quote shows Carver’s flat prose. There are an abundance of descriptive actions and dialogue

By remaining silent, Carver creates characters that are unable to communicate with others and maintaining meaningful relationships. Furthermore, even when a character does speak, they do not always mention anything important, often leaving the reader questioning what exactly they mean or having to assume something.

Carver uses his vague writing in a way that

“Neighbors” by Raymond Carver is a short story that tells us about the life of two couples that lives in the same building. One couple was Harriet and Jim Stone, who have a normal life. The stones have been a couple that has a good life, they go out, they enjoy each other, and when a working travel happens, they find a way to transform it in a pleasure travel. The other couple is Bill and Arlene Miller, and they are the main characters in this story. The Millers are a little distant from each other, and they live their life comparing themselves to the Stone’s. It is clear that the Millers are tired of the routine of their relationship and when their changed their ways of life they realize that. In this short story

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

The Ancient Chinese came up with the idea that two opposing things can come together in order to find perfect balance in harmony, the yin-yang. The yin yang is a widely known symbol that represents many of the best relationships that there are. A relationship is only as strong as two people strive for it to be. A strong and successful partnership requires many components in order to remain that way. In The Arnifour Affair, Gregory Harris creates a couple that exhibits these traits. Because Colin and Ethan trust each other, they are able to have a strong intimate relationship. Mixing work and love is a risky move, but with high risk comes high reward. Colin and Ethan are two prominent characters that relay this

John Donne’s powerful statement about destructive love in his poem “The Broken Heart” is communicated through vivid imagery, language, and meter. In his poem “The Broken Heart”, the speaker discusses how love destroys and kills anyone who contracts it, as if love is a disease. The speaker uses analogies and metaphors to explain the turmoil that love inflicts on one’s heart. By using these techniques, Donne turned the simple idea of heartbreak into a beautifully complex example of destruction.

   To a reader unfamiliar with his work, Raymond Carver's short story, "Little Things" may seem devoid of all literary devices owning to good writing. Fortunately, these people are mistaken. With his minimalistic style, it is what Carver doesn't write that makes his work so effective. Most of Carver's short stories describe situations that many people could find themselves in and that is why his work is so appealing to readers. They are not restricted to harsh explicative details or over-dramatized language, but are allowed to create their own rationale for the actions of the characters and the consequent results.

The fact that Carver leaves most of it up to the fantasy gives the reader place to think. That is what characterizes this minimalistic way of writing and it's the very thing that gives place for imagining.

People dream of falling in love at first sight. Sylvia Plath, an American writer, experienced the desirable moment the first time she saw Ted Hughes, an English poet (Middlebrook). The romantic relationship between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath grew instantly. They both shared a love of writing, but yet their relationship began to go downhill five years after their marriage (Popova). The marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath was destructive because of Sylvia’s unstable mental health and Ted’s unfaithfulness, but it was also beneficial because of their strong writing relationship.

Raymond Carver (1938-1988) was a poet and a simple realist writer of short stories. His prose addresses the average working-class citizen. Bill Mullen describes the book that contains the short story “What We Talk About We Talk About Love” to the “distinctly post-modern fate of contemporary working-class Americans” (Bloom). The writings are depressing and riddled with failures in life. The textbook calls his school of writing “Alcoholic Blue-Collar Minimalist Hyperrealism” (Bayam). This is evident in his stories; as alcohol is almost always present and not always in a good way. This story was an outlet for Carver’s healing form alcoholism as the timeline of this story is released not long after his last drink. The story was originally