Do you consider Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing” a pessimistic or optimistic story?
- Type:   Research Paper  • Category:  English Literature  • Citation format:   MLA  •  Words: 1134
A small, Good Thing, is a play that begins by narrating an event of Saturday afternoon in an American city that is not named. The story addresses some themes like connection, loss, conflict, helplessness loneliness and isolation themes which make the play to be pessimistic. This play generally portrays pessimistic after Scotty was hit by the car and got injured and taken to the hospital, some were not hopeful that the