![]() The salesman, on the other hand, is an incredible character, and you sense it’s in him that the story began. At the beginning of the story he’s unemployed and afraid of bill collectors later he’s anxious that the salesman will expect him to buy a vacuum. Carver’s narrator doesn’t have much going on. What the story does do well-and this isn’t unique to Carver (cf Gatsby)-is narrate from the second-most-interesting (sometimes least-interesting) character’s perspective. Carver doesn’t give us much to do with this, and in a workshop you’d expect harsh words about endings you haven’t prepared your reader to comprehend-firing a raygun in the third act after bringing a water pistol onstage in the first. ![]() At the end the salesman rather inscrutably takes a letter addressed to the narrator. It’s a weird little story and not among his best work. ‘Collectors:’ An unemployed man is visited by a vacuum cleaner salesman. Here are three thoughts and an explanation.
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