Torch Song
Story in short-Jack and Joan come from the same town in Ohio and come to live in NYC, meeting each other at varies times.
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Jack meets Joan and has drinks until 3 am many times until they go their different ways, but every time they meet she looks serene and healthy, squalor and troubles never faze her and always wearing black like a widow. Her boyfriends are always troubled and she is by to help them, with her quite ways. Jack has been to her place witnessing Joan's distressed men and was happy to escape. I was thinking that she was just very friendly wanting to help these poor souls. Jack gets married and has a baby, things look good for him but then after 3 years, they divorce. War calls him to action,
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Torch Song by John Cheever,
The magic trick:
Stealthily approaching the protagonist’s true conflict – and the story’s true themes – to the point of misleading the reader along the way
I can&#;t recall ever not enjoying a John Cheever story I read.
But &#;Torch Song&#; stands out for me even among those enjoyable reading experiences. I felt like it was one of the best stories I&#;d read in a long, long time. It&#;s a stunner.
It has a weird feel from the start. It&#;s clearly based in straight realism, yet the reader notices some oddities. We&#;re moving quickly through our protagonist&#;s life with surprising choices. We keep getting paragraph after paragraph about his friendship with this certain woman. Meanwhile, major life events like new jobs and how he met his wife or that they got married flash by in mere sentences.
So, we think, this isn&#;t necessarily a biography of him; it&#;s more a biography of the long-term friendship with this woman. OK, that makes sense.
But that&#;s not quite right either.
The story isn&#;t exploring what any of these incidents – times when he runs into this woman on the street; memories of attending parties at her hou
John Cheever is famous for his artful midcentury short stories of suburban angst, and somehow became a comical figure ripe for puncturing. The root cause is probably a toss-up between his closeted bisexuality and the insistence with which he was taught to a generation of high school and college students, but one episode of Seinfeldalso managed to do a lot of damage. I've always found Cheever a mixed bag and haven't read him that much, but when he's good he's good. This is one of his most anthologized stories. Published in , it starts 10 years earlier, when Jack Lorey and Joan Harris, who are both from the same town in Ohio, happen to move to New York at the same time. In their first year they see a lot of one another, meeting for dinner or drinks or at parties. It's never a romantic involvement, but more the kind of alliance young people make when they are alone and new to a big city. After the first year they see less of one another, but over the years of the story they always seem to stay in touch one way or another. Among other things, World War II intrudes on their lives and then ends. Both have comically inept love lives. At
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