Raymond Carver (1938 to 1988, Oregon, USA) is on a lot of top ten short story writer of all times lists. I have read and posted on five of his stories. I recognize he has a tremendous talent and can do wonders with a small amount of material. I was fully convinced of his brilliance when I read his story on the last day in the life of Anton Chekhov,. (By a cosmic coincidence it was Carver's last story.) I am put off a bit by the people in Carver's stories. I know it is not a good reading habit to judge stories and novels on how the people in the stories relate to those in your world but I am a bit turned off by the prevalence of alcoholics, drug users, wife abusers and just seemingly brutally ignorant people in his stories.

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet. He contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s. 1 Early life, 1938 - 1958; 2 Writing career; 3 Personal life and death. 3.1 Decline of first marriage; 3.2 Second marriage; 3.3 Death. He chose not to take the foreign language courses. In another story, two women are the victims of a random act of male violence: “Jerry used. Are more often than not about family relationships, especially marriage. There are small, violent episodes scattered through the collection and they all. Where Carver grew up – she is not free to move anywhere without the fear of.

If this shows a lack of artistic detachment on my part or a lack of sympathy for the people in most of his stories, then so be it. It does not mean I do not appreciate his genius and I will keep reading his stories.

'They're Not Your Husband' will make a lot of people cringe at the brutal seemingly valueless lives depicted in the story. The husband in the story has to be a nightmare figure for every married woman concerned her charms have faded. The wife works as a waitress in a diner. Basically that means a restaurant with a counter, a simple place. The husband is sitting at the counter, hoping to get a free meal.

Two men come in and scrutinize his wife from behind as she bends over. Not knowing who the man is, they make a number of really rude remarks about her body, concluding with a suggestion that they guess she can still attract men because 'some like them fat'. The husband is really upset by this. When he and the wife are going to bed, he basically tells her she needs to lose some weight and tells her to stand naked in front of the mirror.

OK it takes either an idiot or a total uncaring brute to say something like this to his wife, perhaps particularly when she is the only one working in the family. He goads her onto a diet and when she begins to lose weight but looks haggard and feels week her co-workers express concern over her health.

She tells her husband and he says to her ' They're Not Your Husband'. After she has lost nine pounds or so, the husband is back in the diner. He is sitting next to a man he does not know and he tries to draw the man into a conversation about the body of his wife. Programma dlya ohlazhdeniya noutbuka hp laptop. This is male bonding at its worse.

This is a very well done story. Carver is considered a minimalist (he would have been great on Twitter!). He does do a whole lot in this story.

It appeared in his collection of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. If you search for it, you can read it online.

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From the beginning of mankind there has been a lot of different ideals of gender roles. Years ago it was only the men who went to work and they were considered as the breadwinner of the family. Usually women were not working. They stayed at home cleaning, cooking, bringing the kids to school and all the other practical things that had to be done while their men went to work, making sure they had food on the table every night. Women were not acknowledged the same way as men, they did not go to work and even if they tried to get a job they would not get one only because of the way men used to look at women, not being equal to them. Women employment was not something society was interested in. Since back then a lot has changed.

Women are acknowledged as equal to men, the employment of women is not rare in modern American society and women are now approved to be as good as men. In Raymond Carvers novel ‘THEY’RE NOT YOUR HUSBAND’ from 1973 the gender roles has been completely twisted around compared to the way it used to be in the years before the novel (1973). Back then it was rare that the man stayed at home while woman was having a job. In the novel Earl Ober is the one without a job and having an alcohol problem while on the other side his wife Doreen is working as a waitress. Through a third person limited narrator we follow the main character Earl through a tough time being between jobs. Earl has a wife called Doreen, she work nights at a 24-hour coffee shop.