"The Bath", by Raymond Carver and "Sea Oak", by George Saunders share similar themes of family, love and loss, but are written differently in style, structure and language. When writing fiction, there are no restrictions to the approaches a writer can take. The different styles that authors use attract different readers. Although there are similarities in the themes in Sea Oak and "The Bath", there are obvious differences in the methods the authors use to …showed first 75 words of 955 total…

…showed last 75 words of 955 total…that Carver uses in "The Bath" makes many readers feel less concerned, and further away from the characters. The structures of the two short stories are very different. Carver's approach allows action to drive his plot, while Saunders uses descriptive language to display his idea. These differences in structure are what make writing diverse; the remarkable thing is that it can be composed in so many different ways to attract a huge array of people.