Raymond Carver Where I M Call From Summary

Where I’m Calling from by Raymond Carver. The story is done in first person, from a person’s point of view that is in a dry-out facility. I am not sure why, but when I first read the story, I was not certain where the story took place. I guess I didn’t catch “Drying out Facility” (Carver, 581), or it didn’t occur to me what that meant. Eventually, I did catch on that they were in a hospital. A guy called “Tiny” was just about ready to go home from the dry-out facility when he had some kind of attack that I thought could be a heart attack, but evidently I was wrong about what kind of attack he had. When Tiny first had his episode, I was wondering if it was alcohol related, but was then confused as I realized this guy had been dry for quite some time. Then I thought that maybe it could be some sort of permeant damage that occurred as the result of being an alcoholic. Actually, I thought the man was dead, as bad as the attack sounded, and then I found out that he was still alive and already back at the facility. It seemed strange to me that Tiny recovered so soon. Later, I learned in the story that Tiny had a seizure, “One seizure means
Then I was confused again when I read, “Now he’s afraid to leave” because I realize the seizer must have been alcohol related, but I’m not sure how since he had been