Raymond Carver Research Paper

Raúl Carvajal Díaz
Francia Rojas
North-American Authors
27 November 2013
The Sun Can Not be Covered With a Finger
Inside Carver’ Life and Writing Style Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, on May 25, 1938, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father, a skilled sawmill worker from Arkansas, was a fisherman and a heavy drinker too. Carver´s mother worked as a waitress and a retail clerk. Raymond Carver was educated at local schools in Yakima. He had two children during his first marriage named Christine La Rae and Vance Lindsay .Carver started his writing development attending a creative writing course taught by the novelist John Gardner, who became his mentor and one of the major influence on Carver 's life and career. He continued
His early work is mainly about people in desperate and uncontrollable situations, often putting his own experiences with poverty, alcohol, and divorce. His later works demonstrate what is considered his second life, which began when he took his last drink. As a result, he became more optimistic in his literary works due to his second chance at love in his second marriage. Carver experienced many hardships during his lifetime and it is reflected in his literary works, sometimes labeled as autobiographical writer. For that reason in an interview made by Mona Simpson and Lewis Buzbee, Carver said: “A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.” He was completely aware that his work was based in his life but he clarified that they are not accurate narrations of his personal
In this part we can see the cause of the problem and its effect. In this date as we can notice, the girl is describing a very close emotional experience that she had with another man; obviously, it is not an easy task listen to the person who you are very interesting talking in that way about another person. This is probably the cause of the protagonist behavior. From this moment the protagonist is forced to take actions, is when we distinguish that he decides to ignore the problem and continue with his relationship carry on with all this emotional dissatisfactions, and his detachment disorder starts its development throughout the story. Following the same track of ideas related with relationships, we have other problems like heartbreaks, marital separations and divorces that can cause serious emotional traumas and may result in detachment disorders. Carver in his story titled “Fever” show us the main character as a depress man unable to forget his ex-wife and move on, hiding his emotional reality, focusing in his children’s care, drinking and having a new relationship, that show us proof of what we colloquially know as emotional detachment. In the next part of the story Carver drive us inside the protagonist