Wednesday, December 11, 2019

“Fat” · Raymond Carver (Response)

This man seems tortured. No just by his enormous and insatiable appetite, but also by his seeming inability to control himself, and perhaps mostly by his use of the pronoun 'we.'

The narrator is a kind soul; she's the only one who doesn't seem disgusted by him. Perhaps this compassion is what afflicts her once she arrives home - plus that fact that no one around her seems to share it.

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