So Much Water So Close to Home

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Sex In the short story “So Much Water So Close to Home” by Raymond Carver has two sex scenes that hold significance in the story. The story shows how a woman is affected greatly by an act that her husband has chosen in which she does not necessarily agree with what he has done. I also believe that the title alone has somewhat of a role that goes along with what the author is trying to say. Therefore I believe that final scene seems to shock what the reader might have believed. These scenes hold significance in a story that well all might overlook as just two random sex scenes. First off in the story a man named Stuart and his friends go fishing were the find a dead girl and instead of reporting it to police right away, they wait until end of weekend to do so. Well the man’s wife although did not agree and their decision on to wait and was unhappy also that her husband did not tell her right away what happened. Now because he did not tell her right away when he came home they then had sex as if nothing had happened. I believed they did because I would think she missed her husband as he was gone all weekend and couldn’t wait for him to be home. Then she finds out what happens and seems to drift away from her husband for a little. In the end though, they seem to have sex again even though she is still mad at him. Some also might believe that she had sex with him was unenjoyably and she just did it because he wanted to. Although I believe many people will think many different reasons and they could ass be correct because the author does not state exactly why she does. The title of this story is mentioned in the story and also a quote in the book, ““So much water so close to home” I say, “why did u have to go miles away”” Carver pg 83, which is probably considered to be a metaphor. The water is suppose to be like she is vulnerable to a lot of things or even
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