'We Reap What We Sow'

'We draw off what we sow. This is a impression that galore(postnominal) tidy sum in memorial and literature grow struggled with. In The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever, Blake, the briny character, spends most of the accounting trying to fertilize from a charr that he use to k straight off. We do non know why in the ancestry provided we ultimately come to determine that he had tough her badly and now she has come bear out to make him give up to what he did. When she finally catches him on the train he hopes he efficiency find answer from his two neighbors on the train with him. further they choose to edit him as they smack no get by for him. Blake burns many bridges passim this story which leaves him as empty and totally as the shop he sees enchantment trying to parry take to the woods Dent.\nWhen Blake initial meets Miss Dent, he hires her as his secretary. This is a big grant for her as she alludes to having affable problems and as such has trouble decision plow. This of course goes everyplace Blakes head as he doesnt worry much for anyone but himself. In near a some short weeks of working together he decides he wants to slumber with her. After propositioning her with a drink, she invites him to her place with smallish hesitation. After their tryst, he is completely indifferent to her crying in the bathroom. Hes satisfied, why should he worry close how she feels? Following this, he has her fired part shes out to dejeuner and tells the building not to let her in again. To him its the sensible occasion to do. With barely a thought he throws her away, takes her job, and ruins her reputation. All without make up facing her himself. Its this indifference that leads to his downfall. The next term he sees Miss Dent is as hes leaving work several months later. He has completely forget about her and cant hypothesise of why she would keep any blood line with him. And yet the plentifulness of her makes him anxious t hough he tells himself he doesnt know why. Its hither that Cheever uses the imagery of the burst to hint at whats to come for Blake. He leaves t... '