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Raymond Carver is one of the greatest writers of short stories in modern American literature, and he was called "America's Chekhov," a writer who built his storytelling world in an atmosphere characterized by poverty, fragmentation, and the absence of certainty in life. His characters live unstable lives, always in the midst of a crisis or in a state of failure or addiction. Raymond Carver did not limit himself to writing short stories; he also wrote poetry and created a distinctive poetic voice that placed him among the forefront of contemporary American poetry. However, Raymond Carver's fame as a storyteller overshadowed his fame as a poet. His literary world was distinguished by meticulous artistic construction, concise language in expression, and precision free of superfluous and verbose language that has no function in storytelling. He worked on crafted stories, on the tale, and on the storyteller who reveals disturbing and threatening secrets, reflecting Carver's skill in the hints embedded within his storytelling. Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His stories reflect the life of the working class, and his stories are filled with characters from the lower middle class. Critic Thomas R. Edwards described Carver's storytelling world as a place where people are afraid even of the possibility that their car engine might not start, and of the threat of unemployment and bankruptcy, and they only feel happiness when they smoke or drink.