Carver's Stories.

The stories "Beginners" and "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" are essentially the same stories. "Beginners" is just longer and more detailed. I actually enjoyed reading "Beginners" the best. Carver put more detail into the story. In "Beginners" he actually told us the time in which the conversation took place. It was a Saturday afternoon. He does not let us know that in his other version. In "Beginners" he also describes Terri more in depth saying she suffered from anorexia and had been a drop out. I think that leaving that part out of his other version didnt allow us to really know her and what she had been through. Maybe this is why she loved someone who was so abusive to her. I think that Herb and Mel were pretty much the same in both stories. He was verbally abusive and stuck to his belief about Terri's ex-husband.