In John Cheever’s short story, The Five-Forty-Eight, resides a man dubbed “Mr. Blake”. Although Blake does not overcome any type of strenuous challenge, he seems to be exceedingly stressed and agitated. He’s not nice to anybody, no matter who it is (it could be his wife or his co-workers). He uses them for his own benefit, and even then, he is never satisfied. He’s barely home, but when he is, he forces his wife to not talk to him for weeks on end. Mr. Blake, who is a white-collar worker, hires young, beautiful secretaries and performs disgusting adulterous acts without remorse. From the beginning you could tell that Blake was a bad person, but one mistake, in fact, was his worst. When he decided to hire a gorgeous young secretary named
