Persistence of Desire

"He tucked the note back into his shirt pocket and its stiffness there made a sheild for his heart."

After receiving this note he feels at ease and secure again. Satisfied like a sheild for his heart means he knows its from his lover and his broken heart has been saved.

Persistence of Desire

"Ringed by the judging eyes of the young and old, he felt like an actor snug behind the blinding protection of the footlights; he squinted prolongedly at the speedometer-clock, which, like a letter delivered on the stage, in fact was blank."

Clyde has received a message and his impaired ability to see makes him feel as if he were acting. Others can see him but he cant see them so he doesn't have to see the looks given off by strangers.

DeAtH oF JuLiAnA #2

"We buried Justina in the rain the next afternoon. The dead are not, God knows, a minority, but in Proximire Manor their unexalted kingdom is on the outskirts, rather like a dump, where they are transported furitivley as knaves and scoudrals and where they lie in an atmosphere of perfect neglect."

I beleive the writer is saying dead are transported to mass graves were they sit without recognition. once there dead they dont really matter and humanity has dissposed of them in a trash they like to call graveyards.

DeAtH oF JuLiAnA

"I stand, figurativley, with one wet foot on Plymouth Rock, looking with some delicacy, not into a formidable and challenging wilderness but onto a half-finished civilizationembracing glass towers, oil derricks, suburban continents and abandon movie houses,...."

Representing the begining of our greed since our ancestors ascended upon america. We are materialistic and dont stop to realize the bueaty around us. All we see is the ugly buildings we have built instead of nature.

John Cheever #2

"Why did he love storms, what was the meaning if his excitement when the door sprang open and the rain wind fled rudely up the stairs, ..."

its hinted throughout the entire reading he thinks of himself as an explorer who likes excitement. Planning how he is going about days of his life every moment with the logic of an explorer. This tells you alot about his personality and how he looks at life.

Jhon Cheever

"the breach in his chain of water dissapointed him absurdly, and he felt like some explorer who seeks a torrdential headwater and finds a dead stream. He was dissapointed and mystified." 1492

As the swimmer finds his pool he regularly swims in he is very dissapointed and lefct curious what had happened. This metaphor magnifies the truth for his love of swimming

PA TODAY

i hate it,... period.