Analysis Of Little Things By Raymond Carver

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This is a critical view on a short story called “Little Things” by the famous short stories writer Raymond Carver. This short story was written in 1989, in New York. Carver even published a book called “Where I’m Calling From”. Where he published many of his popular Fiction short stories, most of them are just to entertain his audience including this one we are talking about “Little Things”. The book shows Raymond’s life work going from one theme to other with no problem at all. I really think everyone should take a moment and read this short story at least once in a lifetime just like all other short stories Carver wrote. He was the first writer who started writing cold and cruel stories, which made him very unique. Little Things is about an argument between a couple who have a baby which the mom is carrying. The father comes in to the story running, he is very aggressive and rude, he does even think the poor baby. The parents keep fighting and yelling, while the father is putting all his things in a suitcase, he is ready to leave. Carver also mentions how everything is very dark not only outside but in the inside of the house too, we can picture that the story is taking place late at night in their home. By the way the woman talks to the man we can tell they have been …show more content…
His poems can be very challenging also so you have to get used to his way of describing things and to the plain texts he writes with no many details or not being very specific in things. Even sometimes he writes really long stories about something extremely simple and when it is something that can have a lot of detail and plenty ways the story can go, he doesn’t use it and just makes it particularly

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