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The Bath By Raymond Carver
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I selected The Bath by Raymond Carver. In the end, I find this story intriguing because the inconsistencies seem to be on purpose.

“The Bath” is a bizarre story about a car hitting a boy on his birthday. The order of the story starts with his mother buying a birthday cake, then a car hits the boy unconscious for the rest of the story. Curiously, the name of the story originates from the father going home from the to take a bath, and after the mother goes. The story ends with the phone ringing and the person on the other end calling about the son. (Carver,1989)

I find “The Bath” by Raymond Carver inquisitive because it is odd, unnaturally written, and its point not easy to comprehend. As matter of fact, some dialogue in “The Bath”
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