The Enormous Radio can be considered Gothic because of the radio that Jim brought hime for his wife Irene. There was Gothic actions such as dwelling in the negativity. The radio wasn’t just a regular radio that played random music, instead it was invading every neighbor’s personal life, their privacy. Irene, always turned on the radio and started hearing either a man or a lady talking. She was always listening to it whenever she got a chance that everything she heard about her neighbors started affecting her mind, it started to get her a bit traumatized. On the radio she heard that one of her neighbor’s couldn’t pay the medical bill due to financial problems. Another one, that Mr. Osborn had been abusing his wife. It all left her depressed, thinking about her own life with Jim that she started asking questions to Jim for reassurance that they aren’t living that sad life. But, towards the end of the story, you see the actual life they’re both living, seems similar to their neighbors. Jim starts exposing Irene’s sins over money issues. You see that Irene is now addicted to listening to other people’s personal life, invading privacy.

The Enormous Radio can also be considered not Gothic because of the setting.  In Gothic literature, the setting is more of a dark space, castle, church, graves, etc. But, the setting to this story was at home. It was a regular day at home. Also, there was no death scene that happened in the story, no terror either. Nothing really happened to Jim nor his wife Irene.