SOURCE: "Drinking and Society in the Fiction of John Cheever," in Equivocal Spirits: Alcoholism and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature, University of North Carolina Press, 1987, pp. 62-80.
In the following essay Gilmore describes John Cheever's portrayal of alcoholism in his short fiction, both for comic effect and as a social critique of the upper-middle class.
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