The story was written by John Cheever the American short story and novel writer. His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters.

This story is about a family Crutchmans of four people Larry and Helen. They have to children Tom and Rachel and seem to be quite a happy family, but there is always a worm in the apple and the narrator like a psychologist is trying to find what who it is in their case.
This story provides a very peculiar style of Cheever. For his was a cinemotogropher he knows how to pick up very screen like descriptions for his characters, or their environment in this short story of three pages long. It is like a sketch movie where details come one after another and build the whole picture. And they are chosen not randomly. They are some kinds of keys, hints, suspects that we need to pay attention to so that we can understand what is the worm in their apple. The introduction is produced with the help of a symbol in this story the apple and the worm (2 symbols), where the quote “their rosy apple” – is their marriage precisely, and the worm is the open vacancy. But yeah back to the cinematographic effect – Cheever just zooms in and out the facilities of the Crutchmans’ taking describing them
Examples: Their house with all those big glass