Fat By Raymond Carver Analysis

Society normally dictates how we subconsciously feel about people or things that are different from how we appear or normally do things. This now falls in line with the themes of connection, change, control and choice. In, Fat by Raymond Carver the narrator retells the tale of her meeting with a fat man. That meeting then impacted her relationship with her boyfriend negatively in the long run and gave the narrator a new point of view. The narrator has developed a connection with the fat man, as an underlying result of this. The narrator with her current job and lifestyle feels trapped and feels that soon things will change.
Firstly, the audience is aware that the narrator works as a waitress in a restaurant as this is where she first interacts with the fat man. …show more content…
As she makes Rudy a coffee the narrator puts her hand on her stomach and thinks about what it would be like to have children who are as fat as the man in the diner. This is once again shows how the narrator is connecting herself to the man. Once she brings out the coffee, Rudy tells the her about two boys he knew as a kid, both were overweight and one was nicknamed Fat and the other Wobbly. He tells the narrator that he wishes he had a photograph of the two of them so that he could show her how fat they were. Next, as she gets into bed Rudy climbs on top of the narrator and starts to have sex with her against her will. She then begins to imagine that she is fat (connecting with the man in the diner) and that she cannot feel Rudy on top of her, as if he didn’t exist. This is important because it highlights to the reader the sense of separation between the narrator and Rudy. There is no longer a connection between the two. Rudy climbing on top of the narrator is important for another reason as it is an example of Rudy exerting control over the narrator, just as her making him coffee highlights in some ways that the narrator is being controlled by