Jordan Williams Sara Howe English 101 17 September 2010 “So Much Water So Close To Home” In So Much Water So Close To Home‚ Raymond Carver explores the hardships that society brings upon us by using dialogue and character development to reveal that men and women alike have difficulty reconciling the differences in ethical and moral values. Carver is able to do this by relating to topics that demonstrate the character’s difference in morality. These include such things as death‚ gender stereotypes
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In Raymond Carver?s short story So Much Water So Close To Home it begins with Claire the narrator‚ describing her husband the main character of the story Stuart Kane. Claire is a very eloquent speaker and usually can?t agree with Stuart so she keeps to herself. Stuart and three of his friends Gordon Johnson‚ Mel Dorn‚ and Vern Williams had planned a fishing trip to the Naches River just like they usually do every spring. How ever the events that would happen on this trip would affect Stuart?s and
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In the story "So Much Water So Close To Home" a young girl is raped‚ killed and found in a river where four men are fishing. What makes this story interesting is that after discovering the body they did not report it until after they left‚ three days later. When one of the men who discovered her‚ the husband of the narrator‚ Stuart returns home he doesn’t tell his wife about the incident until the following morning. Because of this‚ Claire believes that all men are responsible for the murder of
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"Abnormality of Stuart" In Raymond Carver’s "So Much Water So Close to Home"‚ Carver exposes to the reader that Stuart has some emotional problems. Sudden outbursts and verbal eruptions are not uncommon for Stuart‚ as he continuously yells at his wife throughout the story. From this I am able to infer that Stuart has a dual personality‚ one side being normal and the other as a disturbed person. In this analysis of Stuart‚ I am going to show that by the following textual clues that he is not
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Men are from Mars‚ women are from Venus. We’ve all heard the saying‚ but what does it mean? We are different‚ that goes without saying. As evidenced in Raymond Carver’s "So Much Water‚ So Close to Home"‚ men and women differ on many key issues of morality‚ perception‚ and judgment. The two do have something in common‚ believe it or not‚ and that is the expectation of the opposite gender to communicate‚ think‚ and react in the exact way they do. Hence‚ frustration. Not with themselves‚ God forbid
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So Much Water So Close to Home By Raymond Carver Raymond Carver 1939-1988 Raymond Carver (United States) is one of the world’s most respected writers of short fiction. The motto for his fiction might be: “I’ve seen some things.” “So Much Water” was adapted to a screen play by Australian Andrew Bovill and then directed in an Australian film by Ray Lawrence (“Jindabyne”). The Story Four buddies – Stuart‚ the husband of the narrator Claire; Gordon Johnson; Mel Dorn; and Vern Williams – encounter
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English 102-BB 24‚ April 2010 Love? Raymond Carver was a short story writer who was born in the Pacific Northwest. He was a textbook editor‚ lecturer and teacher while writing. His stories featured some of his trademarks of‚ alcohol‚ poverty‚ and people in real life situations. Carver was influenced to write about these trademarks through experiences he had lived and influences that were brought upon him‚ like alcoholism and divorce. Raymond Carver and his father were alcoholics and had both
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Raymond Carver Raymond Carver is an award winning short story writer and poet. Carver’s famous writing career started with publishing a collection of poems. During his career as a writer he also published some famous short stories which helped define Carver as a minimalist writer. A minimalist writer makes “do with less‚ the literary equivalent of functionalist architecture. It offers an art of elimination‚ an effort one can associate with creating boundaries around private pain and avoiding public
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fellow human beings. The reasons for this lust for power could be many‚ and some of them are mentioned in the short story “Why‚ honey?” The story “Why‚ honey?” is written by Raymond Carver in 1976. It’s a short story written in a letter format‚ which means it has a 1st person narrator. This format makes it possible for Mr. Carver to confuse the reader‚ because the reader is unsure of whom the letter is addressed to. All we know is that the letter is given the view point of a mother writing about her
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