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Popular Mechanics (short story)
Short story by Raymond Carver
"Popular Mechanics" is a short story by American writer Raymond Carver. It was originally titled "Mine" and first appeared in Carver's 1977 collection Furious Seasons and Other Stories.
It was then republished as "Little Things" in Fiction, as "Mine" again in Playgirl, as "Popular Mechanics" in Carver's 1981 collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and again as "Little Things" in Carver's 1988 collection Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories.[1][2] There are minor revisions between the version of "Mine" in Furious Seasons and the version published as "Popular Mechanics".[3]
Plot
"Popular Mechanics" is the story of a couple that has been having relationship issues.
Raymond Carver uses ambiguity in the story to describe the situation that is going on between the married couple. Although the problems they are having are not stated specifica