... the gaps. We can say that Carver's style is simple on the surface, but underneath you can see that something else is going on. Carver's characters are ordinary persons with an ordinary job in an ordinary situation. "Fat" tells the story of a waitress who serves an obese customer. But this simple event may well change the waitress" life. So Carver converts a dull situation ... of birth. This interpretation is possible but it doesn't explain all the elements in the story. The question is whether an interpretation has to explain everything of the story. Another analysis of this short story...

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... well in depicting the intensely romantic character of Emma. The narrative voice of Flaubert tells us "Society taught her that the strange was beautiful, to believe in Cinderella. That the ordinary was boring." One critic writes that "Minnelli defines her visually as an alien figure, constantly ill-matched with her surroundings." (Harvey 203). To underscore the imaginary romantic world which Emma ... to exploit the decor of Emma's room with its walls plastered with romantic scenes. The convent flashback is omitted and the audience never understands the origins of Emma's dissatisfaction w...

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... sharp contrast to such high acclaim in the circle of expertise, not an insignificant portion of American students do not feel inclined to read it. In this paper, I make a brief analysis on the stylistic feature of this book on the part of "the abuse of vulgarity", so as to find out whether it is so vulgar to offend the readers or ... of the oriental version of postmodernist literature. Whereas, due to its avant-garde sense in aesthetic spirit and language experimentation, it cannot attract the favorable attention from some of the ordinary American readers. It is quite natural as every g...

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