| John Cheever was one of the most prominent American short story writers in the twentieth century. He was a master of depicting American middle class. This thesis tries, from a Baudrillardian perspective, to discover and prove that the so-called middle-class"happy life", described in Cheever's stories, is nothing but a simulacrum coined by the ideology of consumer society. Only when people break through the world of simulacra, can they attain the real happiness.
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