John Cheever's The Enormous Radio, written in 1953, is certainly different from those modernist works before the WW Ⅱ. It has particular features belonging to that transition period. Through three aspects, money,...John Cheever's The Enormous Radio, written in 1953, is certainly different from those modernist works before the WW Ⅱ. It has particular features belonging to that transition period. Through three aspects, money, marriage and interpersonal relationships, The Enormous Radio written by John Cheever reflects the contemporary American spiritual mind, depressed and alienated in the painful world like the earlier modernists but much too desperate to acknowledge their sufferings.展开更多
This essay illustrates neo-realistic features in Snow Child.This short story inherits and develops"the typical character in the typical environment"and the traditional linear time order in realistic works.At...This essay illustrates neo-realistic features in Snow Child.This short story inherits and develops"the typical character in the typical environment"and the traditional linear time order in realistic works.At the same time,it has some changes and transcendent.It uses real brands,events and goods in reality to create a-true to-life picture of the contemporary world.It explores deeper in character's psychology and creates a circular narration with three flashbacks.展开更多
文摘John Cheever's The Enormous Radio, written in 1953, is certainly different from those modernist works before the WW Ⅱ. It has particular features belonging to that transition period. Through three aspects, money, marriage and interpersonal relationships, The Enormous Radio written by John Cheever reflects the contemporary American spiritual mind, depressed and alienated in the painful world like the earlier modernists but much too desperate to acknowledge their sufferings.
文摘This essay illustrates neo-realistic features in Snow Child.This short story inherits and develops"the typical character in the typical environment"and the traditional linear time order in realistic works.At the same time,it has some changes and transcendent.It uses real brands,events and goods in reality to create a-true to-life picture of the contemporary world.It explores deeper in character's psychology and creates a circular narration with three flashbacks.