https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi Carver Context Wall en-us 2019-05-06 00:31:23 UTC 2025-10-11 10:41:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357029460 Carver's stories are populated by characters who live in America's shoddy enclaves of convenience
- CB]]> 2019-05-06 02:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357029460 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030197 Carver struggled with alcoholism in the past in especially in his first marriage. This part of his life is prevalent in most of his work. 
-CE]]> 2019-05-06 02:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030197 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030239 There is unhappiness present in majority of Carver's stories]]> 2019-05-06 02:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030239 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030506 Carver taught creative writing in California and produced two books of poetry before his first book of short stories
-G.M]]> 2019-05-06 02:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030506 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030555 2019-05-06 02:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030555 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030563 Like his characters, Carver worked at a series of low paying jobs: he "picked tulips, pumped gas, swept hospital corridors, swabbed toilets, and managed an apartment complex," according to Bruce Weber in a New York Times Magazine
-G.Mc]]> 2019-05-06 02:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030563 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030621 "...reticent prose style, which seems to register every detail with the same neutral intensity, the same dispassionate precision."
- Grace M]]> 2019-05-06 02:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030621 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030685 Carver was the recipient of a Livings stipend granted by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters which freed him from his post as a teacher of creative writing on the faculty of Syracuse University. 
- SR ]]> 2019-05-06 02:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357030685 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357047419 "His stories were beautiful and moving" 
- LW]]> 2019-05-06 04:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357047419 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357047744 "His stories are minimalist in style with almost an abstract feel".
- LW]]> 2019-05-06 04:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357047744 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357047884 "His stories make the characters appear inarticulate and alone."
- LW]]> 2019-05-06 04:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357047884 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357101522 "During the time Carver wrote the story, the mid seventies...Women were being hunted down, kidnapped, raped, murdered and disappeared. Hunters and hikers made grisly finds of young women, mutilated and showing signs of 🤬, on a regular basis...throughout Washington, Oregon and Northern California."
- Grace M]]> 2019-05-06 09:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357101522 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357102557 "Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, were still years from being captured."
- Grace M]]> 2019-05-06 09:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357102557 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357134290 Gordon Lish is considered one of the most prominent editors in contemporary publishing, has claimed to have had a crucial role in the creation of the early short stories of Raymond Carver. Carver and Lish met at Palo Alto, when the author was having serious problems with alcohol. The editor was interested in his writing style and this is how everything started. However, his relationship ended after Lish had edited three of Carver ́s books. The basic idea was that he had changed some of the stories so much that they were more Lish's stories than Carver's.
~ Patrick]]> 2019-05-06 12:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357134290 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357137685 Carvers second spouse, Tess Gallagher, was also a poet and short story writer. She influenced the way he perceived love and happiness, she even published a book called Soul Barnacles: On the Literature of a Relationship, Tess Gallagher and Raymond Carver. This shows how strong their relationship was and how they helped each other in their work.
~ Patrick]]> 2019-05-06 12:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357137685 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357416907 His stories mainly take place in his native Pacific Northwest Region and involve characters of the lower-middle-class  that he was farmiliar with while growing up  -B.S]]> 2019-05-06 23:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357416907 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357417633 Was married and a father of two before he was twenty -BS]]> 2019-05-06 23:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357417633 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357418051 One of the most celebrated authors of the last two decades of the 20th century. -LC]]> 2019-05-06 23:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357418051 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357418911 Many critics considered him as one of the best minimalist writers because of his simple, colloquial and informal prose, always hiding a mysterious halo. -JM]]> 2019-05-06 23:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357418911 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357419133 Yakima, Washington, where his father worked as saw filer in a lumber mill. This is what influenced Carver to generate a majority of the scenery ideas for his books. -LC]]> 2019-05-06 23:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357419133 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357419327 2019-05-06 23:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357419327 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357419460 During the years of Carver´s youth, his father had serious problems with alcohol consumption, his mother was fighting with his father and desperate for the family situation to change the young Carver had an eating disorder. -JM ]]> 2019-05-06 23:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357419460 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357419751 At the age of nineteen he married Maryann Burk and his wife gave birth to two children two years later. Carver felt guilt as he could barely keep his family afloat and this guilt influenced him to drink. -LC]]> 2019-05-06 23:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357419751 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420075 "He wrote about incompatible couples with dysfunctional lives, alienated children, financial problems and characters with addictions" which is present in So Much Water So Close To Home.
- LW]]> 2019-05-06 23:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420075 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420150 Carver writes using dirty realism focusing on the dark side of contemporary life. He writes about ordinary things in a simple language that depicts pain and suffering rather than hope. 
-CB]]> 2019-05-06 23:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420150 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420402 In 1967, he worked as an editor of textbooks for Science Research Associates in Palo Alto, California. However, he was fired some years later because he became a heavy drinker. -JM]]> 2019-05-06 23:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420402 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420454 "Unmotivated characters who were implicated by in trivial actions characterised by the economy of words." 
- LW]]> 2019-05-06 23:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420454 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420463 In 1958, the family moved to Paradise, California, where he entered Chico State College. There he was taught by John Gardner
on a creative writing course. This influenced carver to start to produce his short stories and poems. -LC]]> 2019-05-06 23:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420463 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420616 Carver avoids using adverbs 
-CB]]> 2019-05-06 23:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420616 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420868 "Reveal a tremendous amount of detail about their characters and their lives, which can be considered as "dirty" and sad."
- LW]]> 2019-05-06 23:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357420868 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357421287 Carver's fictional world is a place where "people worry about whether their old cars will start, where unemployment or personal bankruptcy are present dangers, where a good time consists of smoking pot with the neighbours" 
- SR]]> 2019-05-07 00:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357421287 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357421334 2019-05-07 00:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357421334 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357421342
In short stories Carver describes emotions, disappointments, and relationships with simplicity and stoicism 
-CB]]> 2019-05-07 00:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357421342 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357421998 Carver has taken the dirty realism of day to day life and explored it
-CB]]> 2019-05-07 00:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357421998 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422046 Carver writes about ordinary things in a simple language that depicts the pain and suffering rather than hope.  
- SR ]]> 2019-05-07 00:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422046 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422120 2019-05-07 00:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422120 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422145 “Lish had cut the length of the book by over 50 percent; three stories were at least 70 percent shorter; ten stories had new titles and the endings of fourteen had been rewritten. 202 pages compared to 103 in the present volume. Lish's published version is 4,800 words, or about half as long as Carver's.” Carver was in anguish and ended his relationship with Lish]]> 2019-05-07 00:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422145 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422310 Unhappy marriages and people who continue living a futile life just because there is nothing else left to do. 
- SR]]> 2019-05-07 00:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422310 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422679 Tess Gallagher said that the exposed, unornamented landscape of his home town inspired him and that it had something in common with the “foresaken quality” to be found in the lives of his characters.]]> 2019-05-07 00:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422679 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422768 Aims to convey through language and symbols the special moments when peoples empty lives are separated from chaos. 
- SR]]> 2019-05-07 00:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357422768 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357423302 The lives of farmers, alcoholics, secretaries, mechanics and other ordinary people. 
- SR ]]> 2019-05-07 00:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357423302 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357423769 "it is his skill to understand and portray the sensations of the characters that shows how the real life of common people in the years '70s and '80s in the USA really was". 
- SR]]> 2019-05-07 00:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357423769 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357424211 2019-05-07 00:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357424211 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357424222 "The murder of women in the great Northwest outdoors was an ominous phenomenon in Carver's day...Carver's story is therefore a fictional recording of the contemporary trauma of the persuasive threat of the 🤬/murder of young American women in non-suburban settings."
- Grace M]]> 2019-05-07 00:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357424222 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357424839 Carver applies the techniques of juxtaposition and suggestion, which he had become familiar with in his minimalist phase. 
-G. Mc ]]> 2019-05-07 00:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357424839 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357424943 Died in 1988
- SR ]]> 2019-05-07 00:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357424943 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357425262 SW

]]> 2019-05-07 00:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357425262 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357425403 In 1985, the US surgeon General identified domestic violence as a major health problem. By 1984 serial killers in Carvers home state had molested and killed dozens of young women abandoning them in areas within an hour or two’s drive of the setting of “So Much Water, So Close to Home”. The threats to women's health and lives is vividly portrayed in Carver’s story by using Claire as the narrator who experiences threat which are specifically gender related. -G.M]]> 2019-05-07 00:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357425403 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357425418 "The naked female corpse becomes a symbol of the state of that society, and the protagonist clearly identifies with the dead woman's plight"
- Grace M]]> 2019-05-07 00:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357425418 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357427534 "Carver developed as a sort of extreme form of Hemingsway's  telegraphic realism" 
- K.M ]]> 2019-05-07 00:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357427534 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357428053 "Hemingway is the only writer from this period who had a significant influence on Carver's later work" 
K.M]]> 2019-05-07 00:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/357428053 nickiconn1 https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/402866921 2019-10-26 11:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nickiconn1/jd315n9qm5fi/wish/402866921