1. Raymond Carver
All of these stories are about ordinary lives and Carver puts these lives through quiet drama. He uses a rather monotonous writing style to reveal this drama, which makes Carver's stories so interesting. In "A Small, Good Thing," Carver takes the quiet life of a family and instantly starts drama by putting the family through life changing trials. ... In "Cathedral," Carver creates an encounter between two very different people which starts drama. ... Carver effectively displayed drama through the meeting of two normal, yet totally different people in which one of them didn't underst...
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- Grade Level: High School