Raymond Carver's Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarette

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In the short story “Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes”, Raymond Carver uses imagery to show that when people look up to someone, they are doomed to repeat that person's mistakes. They want to be like their role models, so they follow in their footsteps blindly, failing to see the pitfalls ahead. The main character Evan Hamilton and his son Roger both fall into this trap. One night before dinner, Evan is told that Roger has been accused of wrecking a boy's bike, and the boy's mother is questioning him. He heads to the house, intent on defusing the situation, but when the father of one of the other boys tries to pin the blame on Roger, Evan loses his temper. The unpleasant conversation escalates to a shouting match, then a physical struggle. Afterwards,

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