A Small, Good Thing | Bryan Aubrey
Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English and has published many articles on twentieth century literature. In this essay, Aubrey compares "A Small, Good Thing" to Carver's "The Bath," an earlier version of the story.
Bryan Aubrey
Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English and has published many articles on twentieth century literature. In this essay, Aubrey compares "A Small, Good Thing" to Carver's "The Bath," an earlier version of the story.
Literary critics have often agreed that the stories in Carver's collection, Cathedral, are less bleak, more hopeful, than the stories he published earlier in his career. Some critics have seen in "A Small, Good Thing" a tale of spiritual redemption. According to this view, Scotty is an innocent, suffering, Christ-like figure, and the final...
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