The Enormous radio is a story that does display many traits of it being gothic in nature. The story revolves around the story of a family specifically the parents, Jim and Irene Westcott. after having endured the use of a faulty radio. they managed to get a new radio that had the strange quirk of being able to tune into conversations of others living in their apartment complex. At the first discovery of this insight it was used for a regular night of amusement but Irene slowly started abusing it to fully eavdrop on everybody around. This was the beginning of the descent of negativity that soon consumed Irene as she had access to the unfiltered worlds of all her neighbors. This all leads to a classic example of gothic irony as confronted with her own dirty past by Jim, Irene sought comfort into the Radio to drown out her own problems of those of others but was met with a regular news broadcast which is what she originally wanted in a new radio.
This story might not be classified into the genre of gothic mainly due to the lack of supernatural themes. the setting is in a ordinary place, with a very ordinary family that of course is not perfect by any means that reside in a building with a lot of other faulty humans that one can find in any genre. all of the problems of everyone are also in line with reality as it does not deviate from anything of the unususual the only element that represents the supernatural in this story is the radio, but this can just be explained as a faulty radio that was just extremely sensitive to sound as was expressed in the early impressions of the radio and the ability for it to relay regular broadcasts since it’s acquisition to the Westscotts.
-AAB
