Comparison & Contrast of Short Fiction
Although there are many common grounds by comparing the two typical stories "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Oates and "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver, but each writer has its own purposes and points through the essences of their story to convey its readers in order to achieve their goal. As a product of middle class American descendants, this made Oates and Carver in common as a symbol of criticasters of the cultural and social structures of middle class America. Both of them have pointed out the postwar America had created an environment of alienated, loneliness, and pointless suburban life style with no outlets to its people. Definitely each of them represents a particular societal group that they want to focus in convincing: Oates attaches her importance to feminism and cultural significance, whereas Caver focuses on America's social and economical structures.
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