Human Experience In 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'

A narrative’s job is to express multiple examples of human experience within one short story to their audience. Even if the story is somewhat realistic or completely fictional, the story will describe at least one common experience we have all encounter as humans. In a sense, the reader is given the opportunity to look back at a memory of the narrator through his/her eyes and feeling. However, there is the possibility that the reader will not clearly understand the human experience described in the story. The writer sometimes internality hides the story’s representation of human experience to intensifies the reality of how complex it is to form an explanation of these events into a concept. In Raymond Carver’s short story “What We Talk About

Which is occurs in Carver’s narrative as two couple Mel McGinnis with his wife Teresa, nicknamed Terri, and the narrator Nick with his wife Laura crowd around a table, drink gin, and have a nice conversation. This set up trick reader into a mindset that the story revolves just around the characters as they talk about love. However the narrative centers more on how love can be tragic to the characters Carver’s story does not focus solely things said about love but rather the things that are told or even not told whiling talking about love. In this narrative the three main example s of tragic love come from Mel and Terri, Nick and Laura, and the multi examples found in the characters’ conversation

They been marriage for five years as they lived in their new home in Albuquerque. However the narrative hints that there are some tension that has been building up between the two. Although the dialogue does repeat some “I love you” between the couple, they do have their moment of hate. In a sense Terri’s relationship with Mel is similar to her relationship with Ed. While there is no evidence that is physically abusive to Terri, he does show some verbal abusive to her when he tells her to shut up or when they are carefully arguing about love in front of their guest Nick and Laura. Terri on the hand is acting very passive around Mel like with Ed and makes excuse for him. However it seems that Terri is more open to stir the pot with Mel since it clear that both of them have no trouble pushing each other’s button about their opinions, intelligence and past love lives. Even after five years of being together their marriage is coming apart little by