Keeping up Appearances “Turn that thing off,” Irene said. “Maybe they can hear us.” Everyone keeps up appearances, no one wears their reality on their sleeve or even in their minds. It is much easier to criticize others than to critique ourselves, as learned in the story “The enormous radio”. In the story an upper middle class couple buys a new radio. This radio has the ability to tune in on other conversations taking place …showed first 75 words of 949 total…

…showed last 75 words of 949 total…waste their lives fearing anyone will find out the truth . They try to hide their faults hoping no one will ever figure them out. Unfortunately hiding their problems doesn’t fix them. Many people in this world are faced with the same or similar distresses like Irene soon found out. Perhaps if people were open and honest about everything, we would learn to communicate, help, accept and love each other despite our faults and differences.