3) Enormous Radio

The Displeasure

The story of John Cheever shows most common issue between people in modern times. The issue comes from the desire of having more money. The money has became a goal for people. They use money to seems more wealthy, instead of having more qualified life.

In Enormous Radio the woman who can listen her neighbors' privacy start to compare their own life and others' lives. Then, she complains about her husbant, their financial situation etc. This displeasure breaks down their relationships. End of the story shows us how we harm our life by the ambitions to try to be the same of others.

The wealthy, money and other kinds of material things we have can never reach to top because they have not a summit. That's why we should be happy in our conditions to have a real good life whether we have money or not.