Compare And Contrast Bobbie Ann Mason And Raymond Carver

Darkness to Light While being in a dark place for a long time there usually is a time in life where it turns to light. You go through things in life where it brings you down and shows you better things that can happen in the future. That is what Authors Bobbie Ann Mason and Raymond Carver shows us in their stories. They explain relationships and how they are expressed differently by each and every one of us. The relationships between man and woman show us the differences between them and how they react with one another. Relationships complicate life and show great things that come out of them. The different ways people describe love it quite strange by showing abuse, loss, and emotion. In these two stories the authors explain how people†¦show more content†¦Due to the fact she lost her son at the same time she lost connection with her husband Randy, who was also in a bad accident hurting himself. With this type of loss, it is pulling the reader in by connecting with multiple issues. Also with dealing with loss, you have to deal with coping and her husband will probably start heavily drinking or smoking due to the fact he is losing is wife he would do everything for. â€Å"Leroy likes to lie on the couch and smoke a joint and listen to Norma Jean play.† (868) If he lost her he would probably still do the things they would always do, including building their dream house they always wanted growing up. You could tell he really cared for her and didn’t want nothing bad to happen. On the other hand in the story â€Å"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love† a woman is abused by her ex-husband and still believes he loves her. By dealing with losing him to a suicide she still cared for him even though he would beat her so bad. This loss pulls people in by showing them how abuse affects people’s lives forever. Raymond Carver wanted to make that clear throughout this story that there are many ways people describe love. That is just another way peop le see love but the other side is the emotional aspects that follow into it. Another part of the same aspects these authors relate by is that they use their stories to pull in people by using emotional situations. By doing that they are catching attention right away and pull you