The Internal Struggle In Raymond Carver's Short Stories

A Frame Story is a story that takes place in the original story. There have been many examples of this such as in Frankenstein and The Canterbury Tales. This type of writing brings a different perspective into how the characters in the external story view the internal struggle. A perfect example of this is Raymond Carver’s short story “Everything Stuck to Him”. Carver’s choice of style, language, event sequencing, and setting impacted the meaning and development of the story.
In the beginning, the main character introduces himself. In the external story, twenty years have passed from the internal. The boy shares it with his daughter like an old fable. The story is being told in a manner that shows a certain dissociation. Like as if the father is telling a story he learned rather than something he lived. Throughout the entirety of the story, the

The boy states that the baby came along during a cold spell in late November. November is a time of seasonal change as flowers die and the leaves change color. The weather grows colder as nature prepares for winter. The same setting has been used twice in the story. November’s change and in the introduction, December’s cold. After the girl gives the boy the choice of herself and the child over his love for hunting. The boy leaves the house to find himself. “Then the boy took up his hunting gear and went outside. He started the car. He went around to the car windows and, making a job of it, scraped away the ice. He turned off the motor and sat awhile. And then he got out and went back inside” (Carver). The boy wiping the snow off the car windows is symbolic of the boy searching and struggling for clarity. He doesn't believe he's done anything wrong and probably feels confused by his wife's words. He just wants to have fun and he can’t quite see the whole picture. When he gets a good idea of the situation or at least calms down he goes back inside to make up with his