The Writing Style of Raymond Carver

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This paper discusses the meaning of the Carver's story, "What we Talk About When We Talk About Love", and his writing style. The story illustrates the lives of two very different couples and shows that love can mean very different things to different people. Carver's writing style is brusque and to the point, which makes his writing easy to read, but sometimes less easy to understand.

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"Raymond Carver has been called a "minimalist" writer. One critic defines minimalism this way, "Barth describes minimalist writing as being 'terse, oblique, realistic or hyperrealistic, slightly plotted, extrospective, cool-surfaced fiction'" (Trussler). Carver's work is certainly "terse, oblique, and realistic," so it seems the "minimalist" expression fits his writing well. Carver's style seems to be "less is more," and so, his stories often have a simple central theme that holds them together, and the characters are quite realistic, just as in "What we Talk About When we Talk About Love." In this short story, the four characters are quite different from each other, and yet, the central theme of love binds them all together, yet keeps them somehow distanced from each other."

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