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Shady agglomerate is first portrayed as the staring(a) town. Located in the upper-middle class suburbs of New York City during the 1950s, Shady knoll appears to be the ideal mail for a family to live and is the setting for the brusque story The County Husband by John Cheever. The inhabitants are well mannered and educated. They can only associate with a restricted number of populate who are in the norm. Unsurprising, once the plastic wrap is pulled away the urban centers flaws come into focus. It seems to me what is truly wrong with Shady Hill is that it doesnt conduct any future. So much energy is spent in perpetuating the place in keeping out undesirables, and so forth... (Cheever 82)tch Colonial home that the widows weeds reside in giving such animated description as it was not the kind of household where, after prying open a stuck cigarette box, you would find an old shirt button and a tarnished plate (Cheever 72). His life is peerless of genteel complacency, as we see from this description of his house. It may not seem to describe Shady Hill but in many ways it does. The endorser begins to form an opinion of a urban center that contains this type of residence, a residence where roses on the piano were reflected in the purification of the broad top... (Cheever 72). The opinion is that Shady Hill is one of statute, and a soulfulnesss house is always kept in pristine condition. The reader may not realize that perhaps the house is kept in such tidy condition not for the sake of the family but to hit others that may come over unannounced. The description of the house should show a reader that material possessions are of great importance to Shady Hill community members. The world outside their suburb remains more than an undiscovered quantity in this case... ...d truth for if he couldnt tell one person from another, what evidence was there that his life with Julia and the children had as much reality as his dream of iniquity in Paris or t he litter, the wander smell, and the cave-shaped trees in Lovers Lane (Cheever 85).There is a useful connection to Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter. In the end, Hawthorne and Cheever reintegrate their protagonists into their societies because, in fact, neither author really believes that there is any other arena for benevolent fulfillment than that of human social club. The Farquarsons maid is the unacknowledged Hester Prynne in the midst of Shady Hill, while gauge wrings his handsor whittles woodlike a suburban Dimmesdale. At the end of The Country Husband, the real question concerns the nature of the suburban society into which Cheever reintegrates his characters.