Preservation

This short story is a little different from the last one. This one, unlike the past one, uses quotation marks when the people speak to each other. Carver still uses short choppy sentences, and I'm beginning to realize that that is his style. That's how he writes. He writes kind of like a list: "The pan was starting to smoke. She poured in more oil and turned on the fan. She hadn't been to an auction in twenty years, and now she was getting ready to go to one tonight. But first she had to fry these pork chops." (Carver 45) It's written in kind of an order, describing step by step what is hapenning at the moment.