The Enormous Radio is about a very average couple who seem to genuinely like each other. The narration is from someone who is not involved in the story alone, purely just informative and has no connection to the characters in the book, so there is no opinion about our characters, just facts. The only thing that sets this couple apart from the norm of the everyday life is their love for music. The description of the old radio and the new one is very minimal. The only detail that really stuck with me was that Irene thought that the new radio was ugly.
I feel it was ironic how Irene never wanted to be like the people she was hearing on the radio and at the end her husband was yelling at her and complaining about all the things she did not want him to worry about like the other people. You get a sense that the author wanted you to see that though they were not privileged, they still had a good life during the story. It seemed that if they did not worry about it and just went about their daily lives, all those problems that normal couples have did not seem to apply to them. However, when Irene was exposed to what other people go through every day, it consumed her to not be like “other people” and to be almost perfect. Since that was all she could think about and all she wanted to do was judge others, it seemed at the end that it broke down her marriage.
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Very good points. I honestly really didn't like this story too much because of the lack of a person involved actually putting there two cents into what was going on, but anyway,it was interesting to see the change of the relationship at the end. Makes you think if everyone else is putting up their own masks for the rest of the world hoping to be "normal".
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