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Carver has been called a "dirty realist". In what way do you think this can be applied to "Neighbors" and "They're not your husband"?
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Kat Budd L6 Carver has been called a "dirty realist". In what way do you think this can be applied to "Neighbors" and "They're not your husband"? I don't think Carver's work can really be stereotyped; it is certainly different from other fiction by other American writers, so I don't think it can ever really be given a heading like "dirty realism". Even though the word "dirty" conjures pictures of filth, squalor and generally anything sexually different that people tend to shun, but in fact it almost has a double meaning- it doesn't have to mean sordid- it's almost a term for describing anything sexually explicit which might otherwise be thought unethical or immoral. "Neighbors" is a story which basically is an insight into someone else's life- something that you would never normally know about that could be translated as interfering or an incredible lack of respect for other people...
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