A Small Good Thing
"A Small Good Thing's" Character Development: Tragedy or Anger Driven?
Raymond Carver's story "A Small Good Thing" is a story of the struggles a family undergoes when their only son, Scotty, is fatally injured in a car accident. Carver's characters go through many emotional changes as a result of this terrible ordeal. Each stage of the story causes them to change emotionally in some way, and these changes eventually lead to entirely different people in the end of the story. Carver's style and symbolism throughout the story causes the reader to focus more on the actual changes of the characters' personality than the tragedy of Scotty's death.
Carver's unique style of writing causes the reader to focus on the characters' development throughout the story. Carver utilizes a very brief paragraph to convey the actions that lead up to the accident. Once the accident occurs, his writing focuses entirely on the Weiss family and their actions. When Scotty dies, Carver does not allow the......
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