Country Husband by John Cheever Term Paper

Country Husband

The author John Cheever is a suburbia novelist. However, in his short story The Country Husband, Mr. John Cheever has exposed suburbia's murky and dark side, which traps its people in a conformity web. The main character and leading role of the story Francis Weed is a winning, middle-aged man, working in New York City where his life is of genteel satisfaction and who lived in the suburbs. The whole story and plot revolves around this main character.

Analysis of the story

Rising Action:

As The Country Husband opens, the author brings Francis Weed in a conflict with his own mortality; when the plane due to bad weather flying from Minneapolis to New York made an emergency landing. Thus, Francis experience begins in terms of thinking of his life in more heroic terms than he was familiar to do before.

Since, after his arrival at home none of his family member was interested to know the story and thus, Francis' thoughts about the meaning of life seemed to have no place in Shady Hill as the meaning of life in that place was supposed to be very simple plain such as having a reputable appearance and speaking gently to the neighbors.Rising action:

As this left him frustrated and displeased, he felt that something was required in his family as well as in his life and so when he came across the teenage babysitter, Anne Murchison, he thought that he his in love & thus brings excitement in his life in other words Weed's short contact with the babysitter brought him back to life. As he observed:

The image of the girl seemed to put him into a relationship with the world that was mysterious and enthralling. Cars were beginning to fill the parking lot, and he noticed that those who had driven down from the high land above Shady Hill were white with hoarfrost. The first clear sign of autumn thrilled him."

But he also at the same time realized that if he continues to have an affair with Anne or leave her wife Julia for Anne,….....