Raymond Carver's "Boxes"

Have you ever had that eerie feeling in the back of your assessment that something just is not right? It is as if there is some un retiren reason that a situation has a contrasting meaning then what is obvious. This feeling is the disguised backbone of Raymond Carvers story, Boxes. In this story the son seems to be experiencing this feeling as his draw decides to move again. There are spreads in the story tilt which shows that the sons dialog does not match up with his thoughts throughout the situation. These scatters cozy up a hidden theme that associates the sons feelings astir(predicate) his mother base with her death.

        One of the reasons the son unconsciously believes he will never see his mother again, is because his mother mentions more than once in the story that she would like to die. These gaps in the story where the mother mentions end in the same scenes that have to do with her paltry associates her moving with her death. One instance that she mentions dying is where she is complaining about the stomach in Longview: I mean it, honey. I dont want to see this amaze again except from my coffin. I hate this g.d. place. I dont know why I moved here.



I wish I could just die and add it over with (p. 413). I do not think the son believes she really wants to die save she puts the idea of her dying in his subconscious. There is a gap at that point that is up to the reader to figure out.

The gap is widened farther in that same scene. The son remembers thinking about a man working on a forcefulness line. The man leaned out supported only by a safety belt and the son thought about...

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