Betty and Don live in Ossining, NY the suburb that novelist John Cheever called home. In American literature, Cheever is considered the Chekhov of the suburbs.
A description of Cheever’s work could just as easily be applied to Mad Men:
“The Swimmer,” “The Country Husband,” and “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill.” These stories are said to explore the “separateness” of the characters’ existences. As their lives are divided between their city work and suburban homes, so are they split between their normal outer appearances and their chaotic inner experiences. Critics often note that Cheever’s talent lies in being able to blend the commonplace with the mythic.
• footnote - by Brenden Dean Kemp
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My only regret is that Don D doesn’t share Cheever’s non-heterosexual proclivities. (Not for my own sake, of course —...
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• footnote - by Brenden Dean Kemp I recently read a collection of Cheever’s short stories,
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