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1. #RAYMOND CARVER THEY RE NOT YOUR HUSBAND PDF HOW TO#
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One night when he was drinking Earl decided to stop by the coffee shop and have something to eat, He wanted to see where she worked, and there was always the chance he could order something on the house.

RAYMOND CARVER THEY’RE NOT YOUR HUSBAND Earl Ober was between jobs as had gone to work nights a shop at the edge of town.

#RAYMOND CARVER THEY RE NOT YOUR HUSBAND PDF PDF#

#RAYMOND CARVER THEY RE NOT YOUR HUSBAND PDF HOW TO#

The question of how to deal with women is central. As in this cited instance, sexual innuendo-in this case, getting head-is also often part of the equation. In "Why Don't You Dance?", the first story from his second major collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, the boy is drinking and says, of drink, "It goes to your head. Often times the drinking motif is part and parcel with, not surprisingly, going to the bathroom.

Carvers drinking history finds representation in almost all of his stories. DeWitt used to be, appropriately enough, a hospital for the criminally insane" (316). In an interview in The Paris Review, Carver describes the end of his drinking days: "The last year of my drinking, 1977, I was in a recover)' center twice, as well as one hospital and I spent a few days in a place called DeWitt near San Jose, California. Perhaps only in the late story "Cathedral" is an accommodation made between masculine frontier instincts and domestic social convention. Speculative, mythic questioning and transcendental connections (however rare, in the case of the latter) are products in Carver of intensive drinking and eating social-primarily male homosocial-activities and aggressive talk-all, generally, fostering and taking place in the context of violent remaking of one sort or another. As is the case for Ernest Hemingway, the short story provides Carver with a form suited to a brusque, mythic American masculinity. We are always "going," to use a key Carver word, Carver as "participle-loving" as Ezra Greenspan (expanding on an insight of Randall Jarrell's) has written of Walt Whitman (92) being, and as characteristically American, I would argue. His method is experiential and empirical the epistemology derives from common physical and social activities.

The repeated if often hidden bathroom allusions (bordering at times on the potty talk of little boys) serve an important function in those stories: we are ever reminded of the power of necessity, of elemental existence, whether excretory, sexual, medical, or broadly practical. But the bathroom incident, memorable in itself, has acquired an additional, random, and serendipitous meaning for me since then as a result of something I've come to notice in Carver's stories: bathroom references. I also recognized immediately that they were laughing at having shared a coed bathroom, on that most liberal of college campuses.

Carver had one-year of sobriety, was newly separated, and had just published his first major story collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? I recognized him from the dust jacket of his book. My first sight of Raymond Carver was of him and Tess Gallagher, his girlfriend and future wife, emerging together-laughing-from the UC Santa Cruz coed bathroom, in the dorm where we conferees were staying.