Industry versus inferiority * if this helped you in anyway please be sure to leave a thanks:)
The verb here is "had given"; this is past perfect: it's a perfect tense, because it has a past participle with the -ed ending ("given") and it's the past perfect because the auxiliary verb is the past form of "have": had.
Raymond Carver's style in "Everything Stuck to him" is described as C) Rich and expressive dialogue.
