![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We do not hear about the children in a normal way, they are like shadows in front of the TV. He might have been sleeping throughout their marriage, and when he finally wakes and sees his wife, he sees her through another pair of glasses, he sees her as the two men do.Ĭlearly, he has not seen the couple of extra pounds earlier on in the marriage, but now they suddenly matter to him. Earl feels deeply mortified with the two men describing his wife in the negative tone. At the beginning when Earl walks into the coffee shop all he gets is a “what are you doing here? ” and later “don’t talk to me, I’m busy”. We see the lack of benevolence between Earl and Doreen. Doreen ends up telling everyone at the coffee shop “he’s a salesman. At the end of the story Earl is trying to sell his wife to another costumer saying, “Don’t you think she is something special? and the other costumer glances at Doreen, but then continues to read his newspaper. Doreen ends up looking unhealthy and pale, but Earl keeps pressuring her to stay on the diet and keep trying. She ruins her first try at a diet with bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, but he makes her try again. The day after the episode at the coffee shop, Earl makes his wife believe she needs to lose weight, but really it is Earl who has a problem with her overweight since he has not complained about it before. This night, Earl hears two men talking about his wife’s overweight, which bothers Earl so greatly that he leaves his food almost untouched. At the coffee shop, he is being treated like any other costumer. After a night out drinking (as usual) he decides to stop by the coffee shop to see his wife’s working place and to get something to eat, hoping he could have it on the house. The story is written in the third person and is about a man called Earl Ober, who is an unemployed salesman, and his wife (Doreen) who works at a twenty-four-hour coffee shop. “They are not your husband” is a short story written by Raymond Carver. ![]()
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