Hi,
I would like to write a brief comment about the text we read in class : The Enormous Radio by John Cheever.
I think it was a pretty symbolic text that made the reader not just stay with the plane meanings of the words but also look deeper with their senses. I would like to state two things that I really liked and that attracted my attention.
The first one is the fact that the writer makes a resemblance between the weather conditions, the outside temperature and the cases that Irene, the main female caracter of the text, passes through. He cites " From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the sky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north,.." This passage is a basic demonstration of Irene's previous life and how her life has changed with the arrival of the radio to the house. "The open sky" symbolises the clear, monotonous, problem-free life that Irene has. By saying that the clouds are coming to North by the south wind, the writer shows that Irene's life will be changing fundamentally and she will have a new life which she had  never had before.
The second point is that the transition from the old radio to the new one is the exact same situation with the changeover of the old, calm, quiet life and the new life full of excitement and emotion. It also gives point to the fact that they have a primitive relationship, and that they cannot repair it, like the old radio. They have a problem with communication. But at the end, we understand that their real feelings were supressed, and that they weren't really communicating with their real feelings.