The theme of love is probably one of the most indefinable and elusive topics around the whole world. People are free to have their own understanding of love, consider their own experiences to give a kind of explanation of love, and use their own ideas to share their expectations from love. In 1981, Raymond Carver, a well known American short story writer, shared his own vision of love and introduced it in his work with rather a clear and unostentatious title What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. His story is a conversation between the two couples with different types of relations and experience that aims at the understanding of the idea of love and demonstrating a burning desire to clear up what love actually is. Carver’s story is a good chance to comprehend what people can talk about discussing the concept of love, realize what love can mean at different stages of life, and clear up how love may influence the whole vision of life with its challenges, splashes, and sweets. To give a clear explanation of the concept of love is probably one of the hardest tasks in the world, and the characters of Carver’s story make numerous attempts to comprehend what is more appropriate while talking about love. Carver’s choice to provide a cardiologist, Mel McGinnis, with a right to start talking about love is provocative and interesting indeed as his job has a direct relation to a human heart that is regarded as an organ symbolizing an idea and even form of love. Who can know more about love than a cardiologist? The answer is probably anyone; still, it is interesting to learn what a pragmatic by its nature doctor may think about it. In the story, Mel’s idea turns out to be one of the most predictable and easier to comprehend. He defines love as “nothing less than spiritual love” (Carver 114). However, spiritual love may have a lot of faces. In fact, it can be pure and unpretentious as loving affairs of Nick and Laura at their early stage. It can be harsh and difficult to understand like the relations between Terri and his ex-husband Ed. And it can also be unpredictable and emotional like the McGinnis’ family. Talking about love, it is so easy to choose the most interesting topic and discuss the types of relations that may exist between people as the main characters of the story decide to do. The story shows that love conversations may touch upon a variety of serious themes like how it is possible to live a life. For example, it does not cost anything to add a piece of romantic to life and enjoy its every moment like a relatively young couple, Nick and Laura, does when he “took Laura’s hand and raised it to… lips… [and] make a big production out of kissing” (Carver, 119). When people are not young and have rich life experience, their understanding of life and love differs considerably from younger people’s ideas. The example of a car accident introduces how people may put their priorities differently. “The husband was very depressed for the longest while. Not about the accident… but it was because he couldn’t see her [his wife] through his eye-holes… that was what was making him feel so bad” (Carver 126). It proves that time helps to realize that some people may be ir