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Abstract
This paper is an attempt to illustrate the nature of repression, alienation, frustration, and isolation in Raymond Carver’s short-story - “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” It seeks to demonstrate how this short-story exemplifies material possession, complacency, and story-telling as repressive strategies adopted by the characters to conceal or suppress their anxieties. In this short-story Carver underlines the role of narration in reconstruction of self and concealment of hidden anxieties. He also reinforces the healing power it has in its connection to the other. Being so, it presents the brighter side of the postmodern culture. Repression in this story is wilfully and willingly embraced by the characters as a means to deny or suppress latent anxieties on both private and public domains.