Put Yourself in My Shoes

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"Put Yourself in My Shoes" is a short story by Raymond Carver that exemplifies his minimalist style and focus on the quiet tensions and emotional undercurrents of ordinary lives.

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instanceOf literary work
short story
author Raymond Carver NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre realist fiction
short fiction
hasAuthor Raymond Carver NERFINISHED
language English
literaryMovement dirty realism NERFINISHED
minimalist fiction
literaryStyle minimalism
mainCharacters Jim NERFINISHED
Jim’s wife
the Morgans NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus emotional undercurrents
quiet tensions
narrativePerspective third-person narration
partOf Raymond Carver’s short fiction oeuvre
protagonist Jim NERFINISHED
setting United States of America
surface form: United States
theme marital tension
memory and the past
ordinary life
resentment
social awkwardness
tone subtle
uneasy

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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? containsShortStory Put Yourself in My Shoes