what we talk about when we talk about love plot

He even climbs up on the roof to be photographed there, like a survivor on a raft, or as if he had climbed up to the top of his history in order to jump off. The man said yes, and has himself photographed on every side of An itinerant street photographer comes to the same house and asks the same man whether he would like some photographs of the house. Carver's second story contains a strong scene. He says of his neighbors, ''they thought they'd seen everything over here. He puts on a record and urges them to dance. The man, who has been out buying whisky, returns and offers them a drink. She knows instinctively that failed furniture is subject to devaluation. The girl says that it must be a yard sale and she tells the boy to offer $10 less than whatever is asked. A boy and a girl who are furnishing an apartment together come by and, seeing no one around, try the bed, the television set, the stereo and the blender. He puts his life out as if it is for sale, as if someone else can enter and animate it once again. He plugs in lamps, the television set, the stereo and the blender as if to say, ''Here is my life, turned inside out -Īs you can see, it's still in working order, even though I have no further use for it.'' Out onto the lawn and the driveway, where he rearranges it just as it had been arranged in the house. A man whose wife and children have left him with a houseful of haunted furniture moves all this furniture RAYMOND CARVER'S first story in ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' is fine.

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. April 15, 1981, Wednesday, Late City Final Edition

What we talk about when we talk about love plot