That morning, he had cleared out the closets, and except for the three cartons in the living room, all the stuff was out of the house. He had run an extension cord on out there and everything was connected. Things worked, no different from how it was when they were inside. Now and then a car slowed and people stared. But no one stopped. We have an ongoing tension building between what is normal and what is obviously not normal.
We know the man himself is relatively normal, at least that he knows what normal is inside the house— but for some reason unknown to us something has happened to turn his reality inside out.
The object of the game is not to score points, but to not take any points. His action in the story is not to give us any reasons why, just to show us what now is. Even as the action, if you will, progresses, we are not given any certain answers. When the man returns with some groceries, they negotiate several deals for items on the yard. Mystery and tension are further maintained by these and other passages: p. He looked at them as they sat at the table. In the lamplight, there was something about their faces.
It was nice or it was nasty. There was no telling. We have to try to figure it out for ourselves. There was no telling, but Carver is teasing us with clues and possible answers, as we see in the next couple of scenes. The characters decide to play records something the boy and girl may not have ever seen, let alone know the performers — another example of contrast and tension between them and the man , and then they decide to dance.
However, the boy can only dance a short while because he is drunk: p. This scene is the shift in the story line. We continue the contrast between the boy and the man the man can hold his liquor, the boy is drunk; the man can dance, the boy no longer can. But perhaps more importantly, the girl is now the aggressor, the protagonist. She asks the man to dance with her, she initiates the action. He felt her breath on his neck. The girl closed then opened her eyes. She pulled the man closer. It is pointedly sexual.
All his things right there in his yard. No lie. We got real pissed and danced. In the driveway. Do you ever feel like you're living the same day over and over again?
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Read for uni. Feb 19, Elysa rated it really liked it Shelves: very-short. I've stumbled upon a couple of Raymond Carver's short stories and, clearly, I'm hooked. This story had three characters: two are a young couple furnishing a new apartment together and it's assumed that they are starting a new life together, while the other is an older man selling his furniture, drinking and seems to be starting a new life alone.
I won't really delve too deeply into what my take-away is as it really should be l I've stumbled upon a couple of Raymond Carver's short stories and, clearly, I'm hooked. I won't really delve too deeply into what my take-away is as it really should be left to the individual reader. This is what the story does; it provides you with enough information to understand what is happening on the surface so you can fill in the gaps and unknown details.
While reviews are meant to provide other readers with perspectives of the book before they read it, this case is different. It could be perceived in so many different ways and can mean so many different things to each reader that I wouldn't want to ruin that for anyone. All I can say is, it's very short. Read it. You can even listen to readings of it on Youtube along with his other short stories!
So do it. Dec 04, Apphia Barton rated it it was amazing. One of my favs. First heard on the Paris Review Podcast. Carver's simplicity is refreshing in a world where literary works are expected to be inaccessible and must be layered, prove its intellectuality, and have multiple meanings in order to achieve depth, praise and acceptance.
He does so much with so little. Dec 13, Buse Bastanci rated it it was amazing. Is the ending of a story, a new story, like death and birth? The reader can see the old man is repsented as a finished life and the young couple as a new life, so someone who reads the story can easily see this contrast. Moreover, the writer gives the reader an opportunity to continue the story by not completing it. The thing that Carver did, is really hard in literature because writing a story that short but incredible meaningful about human psychology and makes people think is very rare.
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