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Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver is an award winning short story writer and poet. Carver’s famous writing career started with publishing a collection of poems. During his career as a writer he also published some famous short stories which helped define Carver as a minimalist writer. A minimalist writer makes “do with less, the literary equivalent of functionalist architecture. It offers an art of elimination, an effort one can associate with creating boundaries around private pain and avoiding public high mindedness� (SJC-46) said Paul Skenazy. Raymond Carver’s did not like that he was associated with the term “minimalist� he felt that the term “smacks of smallness of vision and execution� (SJC-3).
In a few of his famous works like the “Cathedral�, “A Small Good Thing�, and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love� one can see many striking parallels within the three amazing short stories. The major similarities are the development of the characters......

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