Reconsidering Raymond Carver's "Development" The Revisions of "So Much Water So Close to Home".

Proposes an alternative interpretation of literary author Raymond Carver's revision of his works. Overstressing by critics of the idea of growth in Carver's rewriting of 'The Bath' into 'A Small, Good Thing'; Fallacy of distinguishing along lines of a minimalism/realism opposition; Revisions as variants of one and the same literary sensibility.