About Love Essay

The third story which perfectly exemplifies Carver’s minimalist style is What We Talk about When We Talk about Love? The story takes place over the course of an evening, during which two married couples, Nick, who is also the narrator, and Laura, and mal and Terri, sit around the kitchen table drinking gin and discussing the topic of what love is. The setting of the story is one more time simple as it happens in a kitchen. Four friends with their gin and tonics are talking around the table. The…

What is Love? When searching for the definition of love in the dictionary one would expect to find one simple statement that clearly defines the word; however when you look up the word “love” in the dictionary you find multiple definitions. The truth is there is not a set definition for the word love because it has a different meaning to each individual. Love is a complicated phenomenon that affects everyone differently. In the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” it is…

In “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver 1981, we find the author giving a modern day approach to a question we have all asked ourselves. What is love? This story is set in the kitchen of a married, professional couple, where they are joined by another couple they are friends with. During the course of the evening the 2 couples begin a conversation depicting the many phases and faces of love. One of the women, Terri, understands love as an abusive boyfriend taught it…

In “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” the theme is love. The story is mainly based on dialogues between two couples, Mel and Terresa, and Laura and Nick. While they talked a lot, at the end of the story, they did not come up with a clear definition of love. Through symbolisms and writing style used in the story, Carver examed how difficult to define love. Raymond Carver was a minimalist writer, whose stories were written in a sparse use of language and paired down prose (Brent). That…

When the word love is brought up, people seem to feel uncomfortable. It brings great controversy between people because no one really knows how to define it. To some it’s when others happiness is their happiness, or when they feel great comfort around a certain someone that they can speak freely to. Everyone has a different opinion on love, it’s a hard topic to discuss. Carver does a great job showing his depiction of love in his story, “What We Talk about When we Talk about Love.” He…

experiment conducted by Harvard researchers ended with the conclusion that love is all that truly matters in life, showing that happiness revolved solely on love or searching for it. Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” focuses on four character’s different opinions of what love is and their journey in searching for the true meaning, some of the characters denying this human impulse to thrive in this ‘true love’ concept. Carver’s use of symbolism truly forms the backbone…

In What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver we are shown a range of different themes, one being young love vs. old love. In these short stories, Carver illustrates his inner beliefs and possibly his own experiences of young and old love. Young love is immature, selfish and unable to communicate in a way that results in the couple separating while old love is unselfish, supportive and committed to someone who they see as the center of their universe and nothing less. In…

The Presence of Light in Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” Raymond Carver is the author of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” he shows us in his story how a conversation about love can sometimes make people wonder what love really is. They begin to question if they ever knew what love was. One of the characters explains how love could easily just turn into a memory. The story takes place in the kitchen one afternoon. “The sunlight filled the kitchen from the big…

Love drives all great stories much like Much Ado about Nothing which focuses on two love stories between Claudio-Hero and Benedick-Beatrice. The constant romance between the Shakespeare plays are evident; specifically, between Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado about Nothing. Both Hero and Juliet have similar characteristics, considering that they both are beautiful, innocent, young women whom themselves have fallen in love with young men, which in this case is Romeo and Claudio. The definition of…

Desire, Lust, Affection. All of the following mean one thing, Love. The textbook defines Love as an intense feeling of deep affection towards something or someone. One of the greatest playwrights,William Shakespeare, has to this day left the world stunned with his ideas of Love. In the book/play “Much Ado About Nothing,” the main two couples are seen to be in love. Although, only one, couple has portrayed the different forms of Love, that is Beatrice & Benedict who were the first to play the…