Sam

read The Stories of John Cheever (read all 12 entries…)
"The Chaste Clarissa" (1952)

I thought this story was so sexually arousing, without being sexually explicit at all. The character Baxter is similar to many “womanizer” caricatures, always presented as completely sleazy (the fellow in The Family Guy comes to mind, but in this story I definitely found myself rooting for him and even kind of inspired by the idea that seducing someone isn’t so much a matter of who you are or what your status is, but rather finding the proper way of relating, of giving the other person what they feel is missing in their life, or of entering into that person’s fantasy of who they want to be.



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