In “The enormous radio” by John Cheevers there are elements of this story being gothic. We meet a couple Jim and Irene westcott that get a new radio that plays music and also can hear sound from other apartments. Some gothic elements examples that “the enormous radio” has is dread. Irene seems to me a bitter and just mad women, she doesn’t like things she hears and just is mad at everything bringing negative energy. From hearing from her radio she also finds out about Mr. Osborn beating up his wife. What she is doing is very wrong but yet she still does it sitting there and listening to her neighbors which is very wrong and shouldn’t be done. This ruined her relationship with her husband making the whole situation negative and making him more judgmental and less loving.

Also, in “The enormous radio” by John Cheevers there are also non gothic traits like the huge one is the setting. Gothic settings take place in like castles, or anything that’s like dark and gloomy setting. They live in a normal place with normal people and nothing that has to do with magic or a gothic setting. Also Irene lives a normal life, there is no return back to reality and isn’t like in a dream or in something supernatural setting that she comes back to live in her normal life, she lives a normal life even though it’s messed up and not how you wanna live she lives a pretty normal life with her neighbors who also live a normal life expect Mr. Osborn for what he did.