A collection of my personal reactions to: In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor, Nine Stories by JD Salinger, & The Stories of John Cheever.May 25, 2005A lot of emotional suffering took place within the first three chapters of “In Our Time.” Between the women whoContinueContinue reading “Short Fiction: Hemingway, O’Connor, Salinger, & Cheever”
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The Stories of John Cheever
In the Stories of John Cheever, Cheever introduces his readers into a world of confused, self-conscious, delusional, corrupt, characters trying to live their lives in a New York Suburb known as Shady Hill. The name Shady Hill is an excellent representation of the suburb’s atmosphere; shady, where things lay somewhere between light and dark. NothingContinueContinue reading “The Stories of John Cheever”
