![]() ![]() He is sitting next to a man he does not know and he tries to draw the man into a conversation about the body of his wife. After she has lost nine pounds or so, the husband is back in the diner. She tells her husband and he says to her ' They're Not Your Husband'. He goads her onto a diet and when she begins to lose weight but looks haggard and feels week her co-workers express concern over her health. OK it takes either an idiot or a total uncaring brute to say something like this to his wife, perhaps particularly when she is the only one working in the family. When he and the wife are going to bed, he basically tells her she needs to lose some weight and tells her to stand naked in front of the mirror. Download link: Download or read Raymond Carver They Re Not Your Husband Online Raymond Carver They Re Not Your Husband Read Download PDF File Name: Raymond Carver. Not knowing who the man is, they make a number of really rude remarks about her body, concluding with a suggestion that they guess she can still attract men because 'some like them fat'. Two men come in and scrutinize his wife from behind as she bends over. The husband is sitting at the counter, hoping to get a free meal. Basically that means a restaurant with a counter, a simple place. The husband in the story has to be a nightmare figure for every married woman concerned her charms have faded. 'They're Not Your Husband' will make a lot of people cringe at the brutal seemingly valueless lives depicted in the story. It does not mean I do not appreciate his genius and I will keep reading his stories. If this shows a lack of artistic detachment on my part or a lack of sympathy for the people in most of his stories, then so be it. I know it is not a good reading habit to judge stories and novels on how the people in the stories relate to those in your world but I am a bit turned off by the prevalence of alcoholics, drug users, wife abusers and just seemingly brutally ignorant people in his stories. (By a cosmic coincidence it was Carver's last story.) I am put off a bit by the people in Carver's stories. I was fully convinced of his brilliance when I read his story on the last day in the life of Anton Chekhov. I recognize he has a tremendous talent and can do wonders with a small amount of material. I have read and posted on five of his stories. ![]() Raymond Carver (1938 to 1988, Oregon, USA) is on a lot of top ten short story writer of all times lists. This free English Literature essay on Essay: They're not your husband, by Raymond Carvers is perfect for English Literature students to use as an example. ![]()
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