McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Essays

Cheever uses allegory and symbolism in "The Country Husband" to help emphasise several main themes through providing visually concrete features connected to these themes; he uses a plane crash for the theme of identity crisis of the main character, angelic and biblical references for the theme of Christianity and weaponry for the theme of war. The first example of an allegory Cheever uses in his story to emphasise a main theme is directly at the beginning with the plane crash which introduces the