Short Stories of John Cheever

In The Geome accent of Love, we see the quasi(prenominal) phenomena of footling social trappings robbing a man of his identity operator and true nature, in fact, even his alive(p)lihood. In the story we image Charlie Mallory, an engineer who tries to apply the scientific principles of his occupation to real life. He believes that, since geometry is an accurate method of discovering the truth that its principles can be utilise to all aspects of life, including emotional/psychological ones. When he is faced with extend situations with his wife or from his employment, he thinks he can someway find a way to lessen the put out of life through the principles of geometry, "As he continued with his study and his practice, he discovered that the rudeness of headwaiters, the damp souls of clerks, and the scurrilities of traffic policemen could not turn over his tranquility, and that these oppressors, in turn, sensing his strength, were less rude, damp, and scurrilous?He view of writing a book about the discovery: euclidian Emotion: The Geometry of Sentiment (Cheever 597).

This story is populated with drunks like the swimmer, and Charlie seeks radiance, salmon pink and order. He wonders if it is wrong to try to define good and evil, or to rationalize the image of Mrs. Mitchell, hanging by the neck. Life's imponderables drive Charlie to embarrassment and he tries to apply geometry principles to answer questions regarding life that are beyond the scope of scientific method.

When he takes ill, his cold wife visits him and he tries to apply geometric principles in order to avoid a relapse. However, something goes wrong and Charlie dies with no suffice being possible on the issues that concern him from geometry. Science cannot befriend man create meaning in a superficial world wherein individuals are trapped within the existential dilemma.

This is oftentimes like the swimmer, who, cries when he discovers he has used booze to try to escape from superficiality to the point where he has lost his " spend", "Why should he seem to see Andromeda, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia? What had become of the constellations of summer solstice? He began to cry?.He had swum too long, he had been immersed too long, and his olfactory organ and throat were sore from the water" (Cheever 611-612). However, the swimmer cannot return to his upstart idealism. He can no longer "dive" into life, he merely steps into it and swims with hobbled strokes. He has lived too long in a superficial world, and, because he has tried to numb the pain of its superficiality, he cannot find his way back to a spotlight of meaning. Instead, he finds an empty house and life await his last years, mainly as a result of his own actions (drinking, cheating, etc.).

In The Worm in the Apple, we see the superficial existence of individuals who live for appearances and status. However, in this story, the main characters are the Crutchman
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