![]() ![]() If Cheever surrounded himself with the accoutrements of a successful life, then success would somehow permeate him. If there was an element of social climbing here, then it masked something deeper and arguably more innocent. ![]() Mary was the daughter of a famous dean of the Yale School of Medicine, who had married a society woman after the death of Mary's mother. John added his own love to Frederick's store and there seems to have been a sexual element to their intimacy.Īs Bailey makes clear, this was a life governed by necessary impossibilities, one being homosexuality and another the novel as a form. The crucial family member, though, was his brother (another Frederick), seven years older, and blessed with the love that young John felt he was denied. His father, Frederick, travelled for a shoe company, while his mother set up shop (a gift shop) only when Frederick's work dried up. Both of Cheever's parents, as it happens, were salespeople, though of very different types. ![]() His image before the paradoxical enrichment of this tarnishing was of a salesman for the suburban way of life – and a good salesman will buy into the dream he is selling. ![]()
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