Raymond Carver's Popular Mechanics

Shredded Baby Picture
Family problems continuing to occur in all different strata of society. Thus, parent’s separation leads to a massive change in the life of their children no matter what the age. Popular Mechanics is the story written by Raymond Carver's and published in 1988. The story shows us the husband getting ready to leave his wife. Then it turned to an argument between a wife and a husband that rapidly escalates into a physical scuffle over who is taking the baby. In this matter; separation can shake the faith in dependency on parents who now behave in an extremely unreliable way.
The narrator tries to apprise us in this line “He was in the bedroom pushing clothes into a suitcase when she came to the door.” That the husband was at home packing his belongings and he determined to leave the house and his wife, which gives an emphasis to the finality of the relationship between them. Carver also uses short sentences throughout the story, as mentioned in this line,
“I’m glad you’re leaving! I’m glad you’re leaving! She said. Do you hear?”
“He kept on putting his things into the suitcase.”
Regardless of all what the wife did or said to her husband. The husband wanted to preserve his dignity and go far away from his wife

The author uses this line here " Son of a bitch! I'm so glad you're leaving! She began to cry. You can't even look me in the face, can you?" to show us the wife’s aggressive tone to drag the husband into a scuffle with her but the husband did not. However, she was in disbelief that her husband was leaving her, but she knew recent scuffles have aggravated their relationship and there is no point that he will return. In this line “I want the baby, he said.” Shows us the wife did not realize that her husband had already planned to take their baby from her. Therefore, the wife starts to scuffle with her husband to keep the baby with