In Raymond Carver’s short story, “Popular Mechanics,” the deliberate choices he makes enhance the plot and further thicken the dark, melancholy setting, theme, and tone. The absence of quotation marks and other simple forms of punctuation throughout the text display a sense of a frantic and rushed situation, while the sentence that appears in the short story too many times to count highlights the insignificance the couple’s baby truly holds in the dangerous debacle. Lastly, the importance of the
In the short story, Popular Mechanics, Raymond Carver applies specific diction and imagery to describe and symbolize the end of the affiliation between the man and the woman without saying so directly. Carver sneaks in terms and sentences that subliminally indicate the relationship’s status. The weather, mentioned early in the story, symbolizes how the “melting” relationship ends abruptly. Short sentences and the word “little” also describe the couple and their ending. These components give the reader
people that help you grow as how you are. In Raymond Carver’s “Popular Mechanics”, family is a whole different meaning than love. This story shows the dark side of many couples, some would be able to relate. Carver uses literary devices to show the darkness of the story. A weak device that Carver uses is setting, but the reason is he wants the reader have his or her own imagination of the surroundings in the story. The strongest literary devices that Carver uses are symbolism, style, and irony to show