Carver's Story : What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

"The afternoon sun was handle a presence in this room, the spacious light of readiness and generosity." There is an expansiveness associated with the sunlight a wizard of chumminess and affection that is captured in the moment as though naught else matters just then. As though they are captured in a microcosm of good feelings, the couples seem suspended in a sense of emotional embrace, flushed with the familiarity of friendship.

However, as they continue insobriety, the mood subtly begins to change. Mel has passed the point of the "buzz" or "glow" that comes with moderate drinking and is descending into the dazed state of mind that comes with drunkenness. The conversation too deteriorates, as though they have run out of things to burble about othe

Finally, when all of the pot liquor is gone, they sit there talking about being starved but not making a move to go and get something to eat. Now the light is completely gone as well.

They have seemingly yielded up their light to the tyranny of the darkness, without so much as a moment's struggle. Although they clearly enjoyed the time in the light, the warmth of savor and affection, they behave as though it is promptly curiously and inexplicably beyond their reach. They are incapable of retrieving it, so they just let it all go, sacrificed on the altar of apathy that accompanies alcohol. It is a picture of how alcohol destroys relationships and cuts people off from life and love that are imminently accessible, yet impossible to reach from the posture of darkness.

than their drinking. Drinking seems to be an
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