As an American minimalist forerunner, Raymond Carver employs the slim and economic writing techniques, deeply reflects the embarrassing world of American middle and lower class people in 1960s and 1970s and literary school.

• 美国简约派小说的先驱作家卡弗以其简约而峻峭的笔法 ,把美国六、七十年代中下层人民的困窘境遇作了深刻的反映 ,代表了这一文学流派的独特风格。