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Raymond Carver's "Careful"


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Raymond Carver's "Careful"
A critique of Raymond Carver's short story "Careful."
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages) | 2 sources | MLA | 2003 United States


Paper Summary:

This paper looks at Carver's short story "Careful" and Carver's naturalistic or slice-of-life method. It also examines Carver's use of narrative irony and the title of the story as symbolic of the careless way the protagonist has led his life.

From the Paper:

"The method Carver uses in Careful to portray the ubiquity and desolation of contingency that dominates modern experience is to present a slice of a slice of life. That being so, one is tempted to designate the story as naturalistic but Carver's language ..."

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APA Citation:

Raymond Carver's "Careful" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Raymond-Carver's-Careful/71186

MLA Citation:

"Raymond Carver's "Careful"" 15 January 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Raymond-Carver's-Careful/71186>




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