Short Stories #2: Raymond Carver

I am done with Carver. It was another classic bait-and-switch. He excels at creating images and the broad strokes he takes is an interesting basis. But I can't reflect the words into anything as I'm reading. It's too bare. 

Really the only interesting thing I found was in the first story I read. As a child there is the particular psychology to lying to your parents that he nails--this boy manages to stay at home from school. I also observe that Carver has a strange fascination with fishing; tbh I can't quite absorb. 

What do the abrupt endings serve? I admit my frustration is more of a reflection of the product as a whole. It's notable, though, that when you give these words to a troop of great actors (as in Birdman) we end up with animation.

"Nobody said anything"

"The Student's wife"

"Little things"

"What we talk about when we talk about love"