The story “FAT” Raymond Carver what I think the story is really about is a woman that is in her husband life that she cannot escape. Always doing Rudy her husband wants to do not having a mind of her own. A waitress is assigned a particularly obese customer. She is mesmerized by him: by his physical appearance, what he orders, how he eats, and especially by his gracious manner toward her. The consideration he …showed first 75 words of 377 total…

…showed last 75 words of 377 total…t call it a friendly relationship more like a commanding one, not truly caring for her feelings. I think that this story is about overpowering your own fear not letting any one stepping all over you. I think that the waitress learned form the fat man how to be more demanding how to not care what others think about you. That why the waitress chose the fat man in the story “FAT” as her symbol.