Significance Of Irene Wryson's Dreams

Significance of her dreams was about the anxiety of world war which was seen by her, which had put a horrible effect on her mind. She was not able to work properly and it costed her with her energy and composure that led to her in depressed state of mind. She doesnt share her dream with her husband as she thinks that he would laugh at her for dreaming that her world is going to be over. He is ashamed of the fact that he bakes cakes in the middle of night when he cant sleep because he thinks that no one would understand his distress and how much he misses his mother. Everybody would think that he is mad. Good appearance is used over here as Irony to symbolize that after the mammoth created of burning of cake and cleaning all the mess , the appearance is not at all good. They have turned to rags, so Cheever uses word Good appearance as ironical statement. Overall message Cheever tries to communicate through this family is regarding the stiffness of ones mind towards other. People try to influence and take span decision without prior logic. We see as we think