ABSTRACT

A comprehensive examination of the fiction and poetry of Raymond Carver.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter |34 pages

Reassessing Indeterminacy's Importance

An Examination of the Unreliable Narrators in Will You Please Be Quiet,. PLEASE?

chapter |10 pages

“What's in Alaska?”

Symbolic Significance in the Commonplace

chapter |8 pages

The Education of Ralph Wyman

The Epistemological Theme in “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?”

chapter |27 pages

Catatonic Realism?

Further Analysis of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

chapter |15 pages

Excessive Authorial Control?

More Analysis of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

chapter |29 pages

Isolation and Withdrawal

The Still Bleak Prospects for Carver's Characters in Cathedral

chapter |22 pages

Communication in the Final Stories

chapter |12 pages

Raymond Carver's Poetic Technique

chapter |64 pages

A Thematic Guide to Carver's Poetry

chapter |13 pages

Conclusion