The Enormous Radio, By John Cheever (1947)

The Enormous Radio, By John Cheever (1947)

Rating: 8/10

I enjoyed the cool setting of this story, the radio where you can hear your neighbors talking. This fantasy-like element did make this story more attractive when you can't feel any attractiveness from the characters. What I like about the stories that we're recently reading in our class is that the setting, the symbol, and the devices attract the readers more than the plot and the characters. A style of writing a short story that I couldn't notice in Joyce or Chekhov. One more thing that I found interesting was that the story itself acts like an enormous radio. We get to hear about Wescott's characters, their lives along with the neighbor's lives from the story. Also how it reflects the private lives of people, the trend of individualism, and the dreary mood of modern society. Overall I found this story enjoyable and really liked the device Cheever used, the radio.