Beginners By Raymond Carver Analysis

Love and marriage, as shown in Beginners by Raymond Carver and Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston, is for the satisfaction of their own person, the moment when the we realize the amount of unconditional love our parents give us, we become aware of the power that love holds, but we never really wonder why it has that power, we just take it and go with it. These stories, taken together, prove that love has become physical, it is represented as spiritual, and it has been deprived of selflessness.
In the confinement of the kitchen in the short story of Beginners by Raymond Carver, Nick and Laura, one of the two couples included in the story, show us the physical aspect of love and the effect that it can have on the person. This story is narrated as first person point of view from Nick’s perspective. During the time …show more content…
[encircling] the broad wrist with [his] fingers, like a bracelet, and [holding] her” (Carver). He touches his wife Laura quite frequently, whether it was her hand or thigh or wrist - which is odd since you usually hold wrists to hold them in place or keep them from making any other action, it is not mainly used to show affection - and getting a smile in return. We usually refer two people holding hands as couples and if they are having sexual relations, they are in love. In the recent generation, we have seen how appalling it is to be in a relationship that does not involve sex, especially with young adults. The conversation between the friends goes back and forth mainly comparing what Herb said in the beginning of the story about Carl’s abusive love for Teresa, not being love and what love is to them, “that’s not love, and you know it...I don’t know what you’d call it-madness is what I’d call it-but it’s sure not love” (Carver). Delia would agree with Herb, in the short story of Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston,