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Raymond Carver was born in Oregon, and he was a writer and poet. When Carver died in 1988 at the age of fifty, he was acclaimed as the greatest influence on the American short story. At the age of nineteen, he married his high-school girlfriend, the sixteen-year-old Maryann Burk, who was pregnant but later had a second marriage. He did some blue-collar jobs, and he finally became a teacher. Most of his stories come from his own life experiences. Carver, in Where I'm Calling From, has a tendency to use the first person narrative. Although ：Neighbors； is taken from this work, Carver uses the third person narrative to write it. Employing his minimalist style, Carver・s ：Neighbors； can be considered as an argument about human character that is uncivilized and irrational when unchecked. Carver uses six scenes to describe the Miller・s weird behavior after they are asked to care for their neighbor・s apartment. Each scene becomes more odd and unreal. The key represents as an entry to a free and imaginative world without anybody censoring them. The Millers behave oddly there because their curiosity is uncontrolled. People show their real character when they are utterly alone.
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