They’re always left open for you to imagine the rest, but not everybody finds this annoying. But however, if you would have to point out an annoying feature, which is present in all his stories, it would have to be his endings. The themes Carver works with are often themes present or have been present in his own life which makes the stories all the more authentic. He often writes about dysfunctional families and human relations on a collision course as he does in this story. Here he describes a working class family like he often does in his short stories. The themes Raymond Carver often works with are very negative themes, but very much realistic, and the story “They’re Not Your Husband” is the typical product created by Carver. He is a minimalistic writer, much like Ernest Hemingway. You can easily see that it is a story by Raymond Carver if you know but a little about his style of writing. Earl won’t hear any of it and responds by saying:” They’re not your husband.” As Doreen sheds more and more weight, she starts looking ill and she tells Earl that people have been telling her that. It seems as if they both know they can’t do better and sadly have given up hope on finding love, and have just resigned in their quest for a happy life together or even with somebody else. The relationship between Earl and Doreen is without any love it seems, as we don’t see or hear anything about a moment with a remote connection to love. The children did not look up as he walked through the living room.” They don’t eat together either. We don’t hear anything about the children, they’re nameless, shadows parked in front of the TV and this is emphasized by the sentence “He could hear the television before he opened the door to the house. Throughout the story Carver shows how dysfunctional the entire family is and how detached Earl is. When he finally wakes up and sees his wife for what she really is, he sees her through the eyes of two strangers.
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