To read Carver, you only need to read "Where I Call", which is his self-selected collection of 37 of his most satisfying novels. The most famous of these is What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The novel is famous, but it is not so typical, and the characters in it are suddenly articulate about love. You know, Carver's typical characters are not good at expressing, my favorite is "Why Don't You Dance".

In "Why Don't You Dance", a couple of lovers were walking on the road and saw a house full of furniture: beds, TV sets, lamps, gramophones... They thought that the owner of the house might be selling second-hand goods, so they stepped forward to choose. There was no one in the house, the furniture was at the door, and no one knew what was going on. The lovers are young and poor and cannot afford what they want. The girl said to the boy, no matter what the head of the household asks later, you will cut off 10 yuan.

The head of the household, a middle-aged man, came back with a wine bottle and saw the lovers. The boy asked for a price, and he randomly reported the number, 50 yuan for the bed and 25 yuan for the TV. The boy haggles, the man says yes, whatever. He was going to sit down for a drink and invited the lovers to share a drink. They sat drinking among the piles of second-hand furniture. The lovers were very happy and bought furniture for very little money. The man turned on the gramophone to play music, and suddenly he asked, "Why don't you guys dance?"

So on the lawn at dusk, the girl danced around the boy and danced with the man. Towards the end of the novel, instead of writing about men, it wrote about girls who repeatedly said to people: "That guy is a middle-aged man, and all his things are piled up in front of the house. I'll lie to you... We drank too much and danced. , in the driveway in front of his house."

Readers and girls alike wonder why men sell furniture? Is it because of bankruptcy, or because of sudden changes in life? But the girl felt that the old guy was desperate.

Some people commented that Carver was a cold-hearted fellow who tried to describe pain. Not so in my opinion, Carver is gentle, and occasionally a single sentence can make a desperate heart go crazy.

Not only does he write about poverty and despair, but the people he writes also have a good life. Those young couples are doing well when they can make money, but they're just not paying attention. Those who have collapsed also have hope that the good times can be repeated. Especially the alcoholic men in Carver's writings, they took the initiative to live in alcohol rehab centers, hoping that quitting alcohol would save their wives and life could be on the right track again. No matter how hard you try, people break down, and Carver prefers to write about those moments.

In "A Little Helpful Thing", a young mother orders a cake for her soon-to-be birthday son, who is knocked down by a car on his birthday and taken to the hospital, unconscious. His parents stayed by the hospital bed, and the husband took time to go home to take a bath. When he received a call and asked why he didn't take the order, he thought it was a harassing call and hung up. The son was still awake, the husband and wife stayed in the hospital for a few days, and the wife also received a call when she went home to take a bath, reminding her not to forget her son. The husband and wife were already in agony for their son in a coma, and they were constantly being harassed by the phone. They wanted to kill the caller. Later, when the son died, the wife suddenly remembered the cake and realized that the call must be from the baker.

They rushed to the bakery to beat up their tormentor. Hearing what happened to them, the baker took out the bread and talked about what it's been like to have no children in these years: "Day after day, the oven is full and empty, empty and full, never ending. Party food, for other people's celebrations. The cakes made, the figurines of the wedding couple inserted into the cake... Hundreds, no, there should be thousands by now." This is also a tortured man who has lost his enthusiasm for life, and he treats him rudely. The guests who missed their appointments made coffee for the couple who lost their children this morning and persuaded them to eat a few more freshly baked cinnamon buns. Bread smells better than flowers at all times, and it's important to feed yourself.

Parents with nowhere to vent their pain sit in the bakery, eating as much as they can, and at this moment they are comforted and rescued. Kindness turned out to come from a pesky baker. This is where Carver is gentle, without letting the characters fall completely into darkness. Carver writes pain not because he is cold, but because life is like that, but there is always a little warmth. It is difficult for him to turn a blind eye to pain, precisely because he is a gentle person.

To read Carver, you only need to read "Where I Call", which is his self-selected collection of 37 of his most satisfying novels. The most famous of these is What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The novel is famous, but it is not so typical, and the characters in it are suddenly articulate about love. You know, Carver's typical characters are not good at expressing, my favorite is "Why Don't You Dance".

In "Why Don't You Dance", a couple of lovers were walking on the road and saw a house full of furniture: beds, TV sets, lamps, gramophones... They thought that the owner of the house might be selling second-hand goods, so they stepped forward to choose. There was no one in the house, the furniture was at the door, and no one knew what was going on. The lovers are young and poor and cannot afford what they want. The girl said to the boy, no matter what the head of the household asks later, you will cut off 10 yuan.

The head of the household, a middle-aged man, came back with a wine bottle and saw the lovers. The boy asked for a price, and he randomly reported the number, 50 yuan for the bed and 25 yuan for the TV. The boy haggles, the man says yes, whatever. He was going to sit down for a drink and invited the lovers to share a drink. They sat drinking among the piles of second-hand furniture. The lovers were very happy and bought furniture for very little money. The man turned on the gramophone to play music, and suddenly he asked, "Why don't you guys dance?"

So on the lawn at dusk, the girl danced around the boy and danced with the man. Towards the end of the novel, instead of writing about men, it wrote about girls who repeatedly said to people: "That guy is a middle-aged man, and all his things are piled up in front of the house. I'll lie to you... We drank too much and danced. , in the driveway in front of his house."

Readers and girls alike wonder why men sell furniture? Is it because of bankruptcy, or because of sudden changes in life? But the girl felt that the old guy was desperate.

Some people commented that Carver was a cold-hearted fellow who tried to describe pain. Not so in my opinion, Carver is gentle, and occasionally a single sentence can make a desperate heart go crazy.

Not only does he write about poverty and despair, but the people he writes also have a good life. Those young couples are doing well when they can make money, but they're just not paying attention. Those who have collapsed also have hope that the good times can be repeated. Especially the alcoholic men in Carver's writings, they took the initiative to live in alcohol rehab centers, hoping that quitting alcohol would save their wives and life could be on the right track again. No matter how hard you try, people break down, and Carver prefers to write about those moments.

In "A Little Helpful Thing", a young mother orders a cake for her soon-to-be birthday son, who is knocked down by a car on his birthday and taken to the hospital, unconscious. His parents stayed by the hospital bed, and the husband took time to go home to take a bath. When he received a call and asked why he didn't take the order, he thought it was a harassing call and hung up. The son was still awake, the husband and wife stayed in the hospital for a few days, and the wife also received a call when she went home to take a bath, reminding her not to forget her son. The husband and wife were already in agony for their son in a coma, and they were constantly being harassed by the phone. They wanted to kill the caller. Later, when the son died, the wife suddenly remembered the cake and realized that the call must be from the baker.

They rushed to the bakery to beat up their tormentor. Hearing what happened to them, the baker took out the bread and talked about what it's been like to have no children in these years: "Day after day, the oven is full and empty, empty and full, never ending. Party food, for other people's celebrations. The cakes made, the figurines of the wedding couple inserted into the cake... Hundreds, no, there should be thousands by now." This is also a tortured man who has lost his enthusiasm for life, and he treats him rudely. The guests who missed their appointments made coffee for the couple who lost their children this morning and persuaded them to eat a few more freshly baked cinnamon buns. Bread smells better than flowers at all times, and it's important to feed yourself.

Parents with nowhere to vent their pain sit in the bakery, eating as much as they can, and at this moment they are comforted and rescued. Kindness turned out to come from a pesky baker. This is where Carver is gentle, without letting the characters fall completely into darkness. Carver writes pain not because he is cold, but because life is like that, but there is always a little warmth. It is difficult for him to turn a blind eye to pain, precisely because he is a gentle person.