Mood In Raymond Carver's Little Things

Raymond Carver’s Little Things was a piece that set the mood before going into what it was actually about, but after hearing about things “on the street getting dark. But it was getting dark on the inside too,” we can understand that this isn’t going to be a happy piece. The three characters throughout the story, a man, woman, and baby, we don’t learn much about. The only thing we know is that he’s leaving, wants the baby, and it ultimately turns into a tug of war situation for him/her