TITLE:
Raymond Carver and the Ethos of Drinking
AUTHORS:
David McCracken
KEYWORDS:
Raymond Carver; Alcoholism
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Literary Study,
Vol.1 No.2,
April
17,
2013
ABSTRACT: In Raymond Carver’s “Careful”, “Gazebo”, and “Chef’s House”, characters depend on the process of drinking as a paradigm to understand their lives. In these three stories, the characters rely upon alcohol as a solution to problems paradoxically caused by their addiction to alcohol.