Raymond Carver's “What we talk about when we talk about love”

Introduction

“Daddy” is in actuality about almost losing faith in something that can not at all be, other than still eager against grounds. The thought of letting go means her personal psychological loss somewhat that with no replacement would be too hazardous. Plath idealized the image of a father who is capable to do everything. This image of father is heavenly but not inevitably kind or bighearted.

In “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” there are four people who are sitting in a kitchen table: Mel who is a cardiologist, Terri who his Mel's wife, Nick who is the narrator and Laura who is Nick's wife. They were busy in discussing love and relationships. Mel emphasizes that correct love is not anything less than spiritual love. Ther were discussing about true love and romance.

Thesis Statement

Love exists in every relationship, it doesn't mean how much harmful the other person might be. No matter how awful the father was, Plath still loves her father and misses him even if he is no more alive.

Discussion

In a poem “Daddy”, the father Plath shaped in her father's nonattendance is “the vampire who supposed he was you”, one who depletes her of her power and will to exist. In switch over for her existence blood, she can contain a father that will exist everlastingly. The “stake in your overweight black heart” is a picture of murdering the father-vampire, who she needs to depart at the back for good (Plath, 1).

In the final line of the poem when Plath says, “Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through,” she has made some progress. In calling her father a “bastard”, she has moved from wanting to please and impress him, to feeling something like disgust and contempt ...