Popular Mechanics Raymond Carver Analysis

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In the short story”Popular Mechanics”, by Raymond Carver, two adults-that are probably going to get divorced-fight over their baby and at the end one of them turns up with it. I think that the man turns up with the baby because when the two adults are fighting and the women takes the wrist of the baby, the man has the rest of the baby in his arms so the man would have more chance of getting the baby. Another way this could be is because the story was published in 1981, and while the author was writing this, he thought that since the story is back in the day, men were more commonly stronger than women so in the story the man would have greater odds of winning because he is stronger. While the man was trying to pry the women's hands off the

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