JACK ARNOLD
“Let’s squabble.”
John Cheever’s story, ‘The Enormous Radio’, addresses the reality beneath suburban respectability; my story similarly undermines materialistic human dreams, demonstrating how people can be forced into paralysing conformity.The short story form is a deliberately restrictive one; to follow conventional six-part structure, the resolution must be brief. Mine, following the epiphany, is brutal: the man’s death cuts short his imagined escape symbolically at its moment of conception: the protagonist becomes, ironically, victim of narrative convention.Thus, the central predicament is echoed by the structural form.
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