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Name Professor's Name Course Number Date Article Critique: Synopsis of Carver’s Gearhart Communication is inevitable and humans cannot do without interacting with each other through verbal or non-verbal communication or both. Raymond Caver was one of the famous short story writers who were able to effectively use communication to pass his vision and to interact with readers. However, his work has been criticized by a number of scholars. One of the scholars who has criticized the works of Carver is Michael Gearhart in one of his articles known as “Breaking The Ties That Bind: Inarticulation In The Fiction Of Raymond Carver.” Throughout the article, Gearhart explains the importance of non-verbal communication as used by Caver in his story known as “A Small, Good Thing.” What makes Gearhart article an asset for readers of Carver story is how he explains the use of non-verbal communication as a complement of verbal communication. The article by Michael Gearhart titled “Breaking The Ties That Bind: Inarticulation In The Fiction Of Raymond Carver” discusses how Carver used minimalist prose style. The article also discusses how he developed the human potentials of his characters in his story book collection known as “Cathederal” that was published in 1984. Gearhart specifically focuses on the characters in the “A Small, Good Thing” and how they managed to escape the inarticulation of the conventional Carver’s characters. Gearhart compares the “A Small, Good Thing” and “The Bath.” The “A Small, Good Thing” is the rewrite of “The Bath.” “The Birth" is identical in the plot while “A Small, Good Thing” is longer and
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