Carver’s THEY’RE NOT YOUR HUSBAND Language is especially significant in Raymond Carver’s short story, “They’re Not Your Husband.” In a delightful and clever way Carver exposes the main character, Earl Ober. One evening Earl Ober, an out-of-work salesman, visits his wife, Doreen, in the restaurant where she works. Raymond Carver They Re Not Your Husband Pdf Reader. Short Story Tips: 1. Ways to Improve Your Creative Writing. Read Raymond Carver, Earnest Hemingway, Alice Munro, and Tobias Wolff. Perhaps the sound and fury they make will signify something that has more than passing value–that will, in Chekhov’s words, “make. Here is a partial.

 “They’re Not Your Husband” is a short story by Raymond Carver, where he writes about the man named Earl Ober, who is an unemployed salesman, with his wife (Doreen) working as a waitress, at a 24-hour coffee shop. After a night of drinking as he usually does he goes to see the place where his wife works. Here he is treated like a nuisance by his wife. Two men start talking about his wife’s weight and this bothers Earl greatly. He decides to let Doreen know that she (he) has a problem with her weight.

After this incident she tries to go on a diet but she ends up not eating at all and not looking healthy. He continues to pressure her, so she would keep dieting. He ends up in the coffee shop again and tries to “sell” her to a man sitting next to him. The story ends abruptly; with Doreen telling everybody that he is a salesman. Kachestvennoe udostoverenie na gotovuyu produkciyu blank.

The total lack of benevolence between husband and wife are clearly seen straight away: “What are you doing here? Doreen said when she saw him sitting there”1 and later she says: “Don’t talk to me now. I’m busy.”2 Earl is very embarrassed when two men in business suits start talking about his wife’s weight. He then sits quietly and hopes the two men won’t see the connection between him and his wife, and that is also the reason for him not saying goodbye to his wife. It almost seems like he acquires the point of view the two unidentified men have. The troubles of Doreen and Earl’s relationship are also made clear by this fact, because this clearly shows that if he hasn’t noticed the extra pounds, then he obviously haven’t been looking.

Earl has been living his life completely blind and detached, so detached that he has no visible love for his wife. When he finally wakes up and sees his wife for what she really is, he sees her through the eyes of two strangers. Throughout the story Carver shows how dysfunctional the entire family is and how detached Earl is. We don’t hear anything about the children, they’re nameless, shadows parked in. .The narrator of the story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver has never met someone who was blind until Robert came to visit.

Robert has been a friend of the narrator's wife for the past ten years and is spending the night because he has not seen her for such a long time, but this bothers the narrator. He does not regard a blind man as a normal person with whom he can relate with, and is extremely uncomfortable with the idea of having to socialize with one for an entire evening. The narrator is stereotypical and uses these preconceptions to form an opinion of the blind man even though he has not yet arrived. This is plainly evident in the first paragraph when he states, I wasn't enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies.

In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs.

A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to(184). He believes that since blind individuals in the movies are slow and never laugh, then all blind people must be slow and never laugh. The narrator makes it apparent that he feels that the speed at which a blind man moves will have a negative effect on his personality. Also, the idea that the blind never laugh play's a significant role towards the narrator's opinion of Robert because he expects a very dull evening with a blind man who has no sense of humor.