"Why Don't You Dance?" is a story by Raymond Carver. In the story, a middle-aged man struggles to reconcile himself with his recently-ended relationship. After his lover leaves, he takes all of the furniture and arranges it on his front lawn. When a young couple shows up interested in buying the belongings, they do not anticipate the strange evening they will spend with the man. The story explores themes such as intimacy and exposure.
"One cannot imagine the late Raymond Carver as a first baseman, or as financier, or as Cromwell's foreign secretary," wrote Lee Oser in World Literature Today. "His writing explores a narrow bandwidth...
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Appreciative of Anne Tyler's description of him as a "spendthrift," Raymond Carver said during an interview with Kasia Boddy (in Conversations with Raymond Carver, 1990), "I think a writer ought to sp...
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Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver