Radio:the Revealer of a Public Secret——About John Cheever's The Enormous Radio

John Cheever's The Enormous Radio, written in 1953, is certainly different from those modernist works before the WW Ⅱ. It has particular features belonging to that transition period. Through three aspects, money, marriage and interpersonal relationships, The Enormous Radio written by John Cheever reflects the contemporary American spiritual mind, depressed and alienated in the painful world like the earlier modernists but much too desperate to acknowledge their sufferings.