Rain and Diagonal Light: Nature Imagery in the Novels of John Cheever (open access)

Rain and Diagonal Light: Nature Imagery in the Novels of John Cheever

John Cheever uses nature imagery, particularly images of light and water, to support his main themes of nostalgia, memory, tradition, alienation, travel, and confinement in his five novels. In the novels these images entwine and intersect to reveal Cheever's vision of an attainable earthly paradise comprised of familial love and an appreciation of the beauties and strengths of the natural world.
Date: December 1987
Creator: Baker, Cynthia J. (Cynthia Jane)
System: The UNT Digital Library