The Enormous Radio

What type of style fo you this story is written?

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John Cheever’s highly anthologized short story “The Enormous Radio” belongs to the genre of fiction known as Magic Realism in which the normality of everyday life is infused with the unexplained of the fabulous. With this in mind, the story commences from a point grounded in almost drably convention reality with a descriptive overview situating a couple named Jim and Irene comfortably in the relative blandness of the American upper middle class.

The element of magic which gives the literary genre its name intrudes upon their reality in the form of huge radio. A really big. So big that some might even term it…enormous. Turns out that size matters in this story not as a result of the largess of the receiver but as a result of the enormously fascinating gossipy conversations being unwitting transmitted from the homes of their neighbors.

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