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    John Cheever was known for his short stories featuring ironic comedy and fantasy elements, such as "The Enormous Radio" and "The Swimmer". In his unique writing style, he would write about seemingly insignificant daily events in his characters' lives but twist them to reveal underlying sadness. One of his works, "The Swimmer", tells the story of Neddy Merrill, a middle-aged man who decides to swim home across all the pools in his neighborhood. Though he encounters various challenges along the way, everything Neddy experiences ultimately leads to his sad fate, as he is too late in taking responsibility for his actions and ends up hurting his family and himself.

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    John Cheever was known for his short stories featuring ironic comedy and fantasy elements, such as "The Enormous Radio" and "The Swimmer". In his unique writing style, he would write about seemingly insignificant daily events in his characters' lives but twist them to reveal underlying sadness. One of his works, "The Swimmer", tells the story of Neddy Merrill, a middle-aged man who decides to swim home across all the pools in his neighborhood. Though he encounters various challenges along the way, everything Neddy experiences ultimately leads to his sad fate, as he is too late in taking responsibility for his actions and ends up hurting his family and himself.

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    John Cheever was known for his short stories featuring ironic comedy and fantasy elements, such as "The Enormous Radio" and "The Swimmer". In his unique writing style, he would write about seemingly insignificant daily events in his characters' lives but twist them to reveal underlying sadness. One of his works, "The Swimmer", tells the story of Neddy Merrill, a middle-aged man who decides to swim home across all the pools in his neighborhood. Though he encounters various challenges along the way, everything Neddy experiences ultimately leads to his sad fate, as he is too late in taking responsibility for his actions and ends up hurting his family and himself.

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    John Cheever: The genre of his stories- is mostly fantasy and ironic comedy.

    Unique writing style writes


    about apparently insignificant events in the lives of his character and twists them, reveling his sadness.
    He is known for "Enormous Radio" and "The Swimmer".
    He is associated with the New Yorker,
    Neddy Merril, a middle-aged man, decided to across his country by swimming across every pool he
    could find on his way home.
    This book represents the passage of time (diurnal seasonal and personal)
    ...
    Everything that Neddy wents trhough leads to his final fate
    Unfortunately, he is too late in taking accountability for his actions, ending up hurting his family and
    leading himself to doom

    Class
    -consumerist society- desire to be recognise and above everyone else

    The growth of suburbia- US life after the WW2


    Why?
    The soldiers needed to come back home, and the United States were economically stable.

    Contexts to the story: Migration to the cities and life in suburbia

    Ongoing migration
    Since the 19 century, US citizens as well as imigrants flocked to American cities in search of factory work.

    After WW2
    -"GI bill"-veterans' benefits
    -home loans
    -Lower house prices
    -Factories- Mass production- assembly line system
    Example: The construction firm Levitt And Sons built three giant "Levittown" suburbs of NY, New Jersey
    and Pennsylvania.

    Reasons for the growth of Suburbia


     Large demobilization of soldiers after WW2
     Baby-boomers
     The social and economic construction of the American Dream (white picket fence, 2
    children a dog, an happy family)

    Material vision of the dream

    Consequences
    The postwar exodus to the suburbs fueled a reorganization of power and moneyh that affected:
     -Economy and industry
     -Race relations
     -Gender roles

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