• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story
• Length: 15 pages

Angel Of The Bridge is a 1961 short story by notable, American author John Cheever. - AsNotedIn

You MAY have seen my mother waltzing on ice skates in Rockefeller Center. She's seventy-eight years old now but very wiry, and she wears a red velvet costume with a short skirt. Her tights are flesh-colored, and she wears spectacles and a red ribbon in her white hair, and she waltzes with one of the rink attendants. I don't know why I should find the fact that she waltzes on ice skates so disconcerting, but I do. I avoid that neighborhood whenever I can during the winter months, and I never lunch in the restaurants on the rink.John Cheever, Angel Of The Bridge

• Theme Group: Literary New York, NY

Places

• Chateau Marmont, LA, Los Angeles Outside my hotel window was a monumental statue of a young woman, advertising a Las Vegas night club. She revolves slowly in a beam of light, At 2 am the light is extinguished, but she goes on restlessly turning all through the night.
• East Harlem, I had to go to Idle wild later in the week, and, rather than take a bus or a taxi, I drove the car myself. I nearly lost consciousness on the Triborough Bridge.
• Rockefeller Center, New York City You MAY have seen my mother waltzing on ice skates in Rockefeller Center. She's seventy-eight years old now but very wiry, and she wears a red velvet costume with a short skirt.
• Washington Heights, We were talking and laughing, and I had approached and was in fact on the George Washington Bridge without having remembered my weakness.