Raymond Carver: Collected Stories Raymond Carver

The beautiful Pacific Northwest serves as a perfect backdrop for Raymond Carver’s stories, full of recurring symbolism, underlying themes, and significant motifs, most importantly the repeated theme of water. Just as water plays such a significant...

Discoveries that lead to self-reflection and future enlightenment often hold the most significance in our lives. The capacity for discoveries to take a metamorphic effect on an individual and alleviate former times is conducive to their...

Raymond Carver and Edward Hopper are renowned influencers in their respective expressions of the arts. Carver’s literary work and Hopper’s paintings are devoted to human interaction. Although their avenues of expressing such genres are different,...

In Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk As About Love”, Mel McGinnins, Teresa, Laura and Nick (the narrator) hold a discussion about love. They attempt to typify love, but, each one of them has a different understanding of what love...