The Preliminary Research On The Theme And Art Of Raymond Carver’s Short Story

Raymond Carver (1938—1988), famous contemporary short story writer and poet. He is called "the father of Minimalism", for his simple and plain description language, objective and cool way of description. He had contributed to the revival of the short stories of the United States in70’s and80’s. For a long time, academic session pay more attention to his writing style and so on. There are lack of the study of art characters and the system of thematic studies. Therefore, these theses study from the scholars on the essence of review of Carver through the method of depth reading, the use of narrative theory and other knowledges. What’s more, it strives to combine text study and theoretical exploration of Carver’s short story works holistically grasp and systematic analysis.Carver who was born in underclass society and he lived there for a long time. He is a writer that can face the reality of the hardship and frustration. On the one hand, his novel always drew the materials from the daily life of the underclass in American. In his novel, the lack of the material and the hardship of economic which are lead to a hard life for people. The imbalance in gender relations exacerbate the life of people. Those are directly and indirectly lead to people suffering the pain in mental. Those factors are make people to feel the threaten and anxiety. Thus people fall into the plight of the spirit. On the other hand, today human beings have to stay in the society in which is full of material. Lacking of the necessary communication between people so that people have difficult in building up a long-term and effective communication. People have gradually lost the ability to self-expression and exchange the information between lover and family members and the relationship of others. Thus the relationship of people falls into the trouble. The Carver’s novel not only face and point out the cruelty and helplessness but also deeply presents the abnormal situation of communication. He still thinks about the despair and alienated real life deeply. In a word, it plays a positive role in the reality.Carver’s short story creative style is known for the "minimalist". The story presents more enriched the artistic content though it use the way of "minimalist". The use of repeated narrative, vacancies and omitted which make the paper polysemy and leave the readers more space to think. Using the limited perspective of the narrative, Especially in the novels of the camera view angle and third person limited point of view of the characters. Using those that can make a room for explaining and interpreting during the short story. It also makes the text vivid and demonstrates the depth of the theme for works. Carver thinks that the dialogue has a significant role in the story of the development and character molding. Therefore, His works with the seemingly simple and straightforward or daily flat dialogue actually contains a wealth of meaning.