In Raymond Carver’s “Little Things,” we get a contemporary parable with allusions to the Old Testament’s story of King Solomon and two women fighting over a baby. The scene starts off with the separation of a husband and wife-who will later fight, physically, over a baby to decide who gets it. This is one of the “exceptional moments in ordinary lives” that the critic references. It’s one thing that is life changing-that many in today’s society of devaluing marriage face- that plagues too many. It’s splitting apart a family and in this case literally. The fight over the infant, I believe, is meant to show what divorce actually does psychologically to a family and its children. According to statistics fifty percent of families experience. In
