If anything there is a sense that the narrator has or is suffering.Д¬arver continues to explore theВ discomfort that the narrator may feelВ when the photographer, as he is sitting down drinking coffee, asks the narrator вЂYouвЂ™re alone, right?вЂ™ The narrator never answers rather he just tells the photographer вЂDrink your coffee.вЂ™ The fact that the narrator never answers the photographer is important as itВ suggests that the narrator doesnвЂ™t want to talk about the fact that he is aloneВ and that his family have left him. The reader awareВ that the trigger for this discomfort may be the fact that the narratorвЂ™s family have left him. Not only does he view the details (his house) in the photograph to be a tragedyВ but he also focuses on his head in the photograph.В By doing so Carver may be suggesting that the narrator is not only uncomfortable with his life (the details of his house) but it is also possible that Carver is suggesting (and by putting the word head in italics) that the narrator is uncomfortable with the position (or head space) he finds himself in. The photograph that the photographerВ gives to the narrator just before the photographer goes to the toilet may also be important as it is from the narrator looking at the photograph that the reader gets a sense that the narrator is uncomfortable within himself. Something that becomes clearer to the reader as the photographer begins to talk to the narrator. Despite the narrator also telling the reader that he asked the photographer into his home (for coffee) just to see вЂhow he would hold a cupвЂ™, it is also possible that he hasВ done so because he is lonely. Like the photographer, the narrator also has a story to tell, that of the loss of his wife and children. It is also significant that when the narrator asks the photographerВ how he lost his hands that the photographer tells him вЂThatвЂ™s another storyвЂ¦вЂ™ This line is important asВ without the narrator being aware of it, this lineВ also connects the narrator to the photographer.

The reader is aware that the photographer has hook hands. Taken from hisВ What We Talk About When We Talk About LoveВ collection the story is narrated in the first person by an unnamed narratorВ and fromВ the beginning of the story the reader realises that CarverВ may be exploring one of the main themes of the story, the theme of loss. In Viewfinder by Raymond Carver we have the theme of loss, suffering, connection, loneliness, acceptance, letting go and moving on.

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