#Cheever

[opelman]

Ferrari 296 GT3 / Marco Pulcini / ITA / Eddie Cheever III / ITA / AF Corse by Artes Max Via Flickr: International GT Open 2023 / Circuit de Barcelona

[sublecturas]

"Relatos 1", de John Cheever

[baffled-bisexual]

I say I’m ok but deep inside I’m still pondering the mental health implications of American writer John Cheever’s work—The Swimmer—from my last semester of college English

[marlowe1-blog]

"An Educated American Woman" (The Stories of John Cheever)

This one concerns gender roles...

According to Paul Dean, the Jill of the story is based on Cheever's wife. In fact, it's a meanspirited depiction of Cheever's wife. At least at the end it's pretty damn mean. At the beginning, she's an ambitious woman in the wrong time period with everyone working against her. So she becomes rather brittle.

You could say that this is feminist or anti-feminist in the same way a Strindberg play can be feminist or anti-feminist depending on whether you think that the author is depicting his woman character as a reaction to patriarchy or a monster who has no true feelings.

Certainly the feminist part can be gleamed from scenes where she is watching her husband clean the house and feeling like he's not truly a man. Throughout the story, her husband is depicted as a bit of a drunk and a shlub that she emasculated throughout. Only, why does it matter so much to her that her husband is a weak man? Why is she constantly putting herself above him? Why does she buy into that "a woman wants a man who can protect her" bullshit?

Yet, she's also a monster. She can't enjoy a trip through Europe without playing tour guide. She has no natural inclinations. She judges her mother harshly for her mother's dalliance and even when her husband takes a mistress, she finds his story fake because she doesn't believe that he could ever have an affair. He's just too damn weak to stand up for himself.

Since these are rich people, there's no discussion of unpaid labor. They pay their maids and their babysitters and they send their kid off to a summer camp, just to get rid of him (he's so traumatized that the counselors assume that they are divorced).

Then their son dies of the flu. George is devastated. We don't know how Jill feels, but Jill's mother sends a letter saying that she doesn't want to deal with that mess. So Jill never really had a chance to be an emotional being.

Because George blames Jill (because mother I guess) he divorces her. And then the narrator imposes himself stating that drunk George called him to see if they could meet up sometime. But even the narrator considers George to be a loser.

That's the weirdest part of the story. The unreliable narrator shows up at the end to say that George is a loser even as he depicts Jill as a shrew.

Don't know what else to say about this story. It rolls over its characters and their foibles from their youth to the death of a child and they seem so privileged even as they are so miserable. So I guess that's a Cheever theme right there.

[iameleonorac]

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[khookn]

Lesharold my favourite camper pair

[jaypilled]

let him cook yall

[s1eepyfr0g]

theyre so frenemies coded

[haroldherald]

his fuckass posture

[enchantedbook]

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Art by Lisbeth Cheever - Gessaman

[scepterno]

girl gang! (more timeskip designs)

[t4t-hantunia]

REBL0GS > LIIKESS

[dozydawn]

Goaltender Gerry Cheevers added a stitch to his fiberglass mask every time he took a shot to the face.

[miraculousloverandhater]

Daily reminder to stan Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady V

[marlowe1-blog]

"Clementina" (Stories of John Cheever)

This fucking story

Ok I wrote about this one. I was very insightful and i felt like I nailed it. Cheever uses an Italian peasant to give us a noble savage take on American culture. I was very ambivalent about how I felt about it. MOre importantly I felt one way about it when I was reading it, but in retrospect, she was a cipher, a woman that he never quite knows how to write.

So as she goes from peasant who sees devils and angels and the spirits in the dead in wolves to servant for Italian family to servant for American family, she is astounded by how everyone is so nice to the servant and even helps out.

Then she gets to America and the washing machine is too much for her. But she gets to it. She gets so used to it that she marries an old Italian guy with a lot of money to keep from going back to Italy.

And then Tumblr decided that me tagging my name as Tim Lieder would be better if I tagged it as Tim songs. I know what my name means, Tumblr. Fucking hell.

Oh yeah, she eventually sees her American boss again and he's divorced because he married for love. She married for money. So she feels sorry for him. Because it's really better to be simple and European than complicated and American. This is the theme. It's kind of dumb.

[average-riot]

Im taking breaks in between my writing to do other things (usually drawing sumn silly) and this one came to me in a vision . I haven't done as much stuff with him but GAWD I love Harold so mu ch hes a chew toy .