I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.
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John Cheever was a 20th-century American novelist and short story writer. John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". Read more on Wikipedia →