OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS (1982) BY JOHN CHEEVER

SOME ISSUES: 

- The "seeming": it "seems" a paradise because it is not (it's just looks like) vs. it "seems" a paradise because we don't know the "original" ("pictures he had seen of paradise", pag 84)

- Nostalgia.

- Aged / Sexuality / Feeling guilty / Homosexuality / Psychology

- Love as a paradise / "seemed" because the end of love is unavoidable

- Water / Nature / Environment / Skating as the origin of the modern mankind / Fishing

- What we do to keep our paradise. Sears and his attemts. Betsy and his "loving terrorism" (the lost baby, killing of Chisholm, revange).

- The dogs: the dog variety and the killing of a dog (Salazzo's)

- Estelle and the parable of concerning about the far future / forgetting the immediate.

- Sears and the celebration of the sensuality as the "real".

- Sedentarism / Nomadism - Highways and fried food. / -No fast food because of the error of a computer.

- "At the time of which I'm writing" - cultural movement.

-The "Mayor" and the patriotic excuse. Vietnam, etc.