The short story Call If You Need Me is a panoramic report written by Raymond Carver. It was published in 1999. The story is written in first person with direct speech, and the beginning is in medias res where the main character, Dan, is leading his son to the airport to visit his grandmother while he is going to a house he has rented with his wife to fix their marriage. The beginning makes it difficult to understand, because it’s hard to understand what is happening before the story really begins.
The main character, Dan, is a man whose wife, Nancy, both have an affair with another person, and they both know. Dan and Nancy try to solve their relationship problems by getting away from everything, and choose to rent a house in the summer period. So Dan brings his lover, Susan, to help him rent the house he and Nancy later on will stay for the summer. Susan said: I envy your wife, I envy Nancy. […] I envy her the life she will have with you in that house this summer. I wish it were me. I wish it were us. (p. 2, l. 33-39) it was reassuring words for Dan, if he had doubts about himself, she would show him the love he needed.
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