Discomfort, Irritation, and Confusion of The Bath Essay -- Wife of Bat

  Discomfort, Irritation, and confusedness of The Bath          People are living robots. They follow the norm. They go with the latest trend. They walk the latest walk and talk the latest talk. Even the first-class ideas that sprout from peoples minds are a combination of other peoples thoughts and ideas friends, family and the media are the sterling(prenominal) influences. When a situation that is out of the norm confronts people, they are suddenly caught reach guard, and instead of dealing with the situation, they shy away from it in attempt to pitch to their protective glass case the norm. Raymond Carver forces his endorsers to face discomfort, irritation, and confusion done reading The Bath. His verbiage is dry, and the report card is short. The characters do not curb names, the language does not flow well, and the expiration leaves the lector hanging. The message of the tommyrot is vague, and the plot lacks depth however, the d etails that this story reveals through the concise language surpasses any detail that A Small, cracking Thing reveals through its copiousness of words.   To begin with, The Bath lacks much usage of adverbs. Adverbs typically help portray an action so that the reader bust understands either the character or the situation. Clearly, the point of not including adverbs in this short story is to force the reader to focus on what happens instead of how something happens. A short story is something glimpsed from the street corner of the eye, in passing (Carver 558). A reader should not feel connected with the characters in the story because that is not the authors main concern. An author simply attempts to lend a message through some words in a page that is arranged in ... ... intentions for A Small, Good Thing dissent from his intentions for The Bath.   Throughout The Bath the reader struggles with many uncomfortable feelings, and although the reader may not immediately r ealize that he/she can fix to the story more than he/she knows, a relationship is present. The Bath does a good job of putting the reader in the characters shoes. A Small, Good Thing, on the other hand, provides a comforting feeling of knowing everything that happens, and knowing that everything works out at the end. Since there is a beginning and an ending to the story, the reader can conclude a meaningful message from the story and relate or apply it to his/her life. Overall, The Bath sets the mood of the story better than A Small, Good Thing because of its concise language and its focus on the glimpse instead of the big picture.