SOURCE: “New Fiction from Atlantic to Pacific,” in The Critical Response to John Cheever, edited by Francis J. Bosha, Greenwood Press, 1994, pp. 5-6.
In the following essay, originally published in the New York Herald in 1943, Feld asserts that, although most of the stories in The Way Some People Live are mere moments or fragments of stories, Cheever succeeds in portraying his characters with sympathy and irony.
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