One of Singer's best stories and one of Cheever's worst

Reading a few more selections in the norton Anthology of short fiction 3rd ed, including Isaac Bashevis Singer's famous The Spinoza of Market Street, which oddly I'd never read before .  Clearly one of his best stories, free of the mordant cynicism and occasional misogyny of his "american" stories yet not mired I. The sentimentality and yearning for a lost world of his shtetl stories. This story is a study in personality, specifically of the ill, elderly scholar, Dr. fischelson, who has devoted his life to the study of Spinoza and has done his best to model his life's on the tenets of S's stbinking, essentially, if I have this right, attempting to view all human life from the perspective of god and realizing that we are just a minute part of the cosmos so attention to worldly matters is meaningless and interferes w our purpose on earth. So dr F suffers from his illnesses and maladies and looks out his window on the teeming life below - a busy street in Warsaw in 1905 - a street whose life is disrupted by the outbreak of war, to which dr f presumes to be indifferent. All changes when his neighbor cares for him during a near fatal illness (and starvation) and eventually he agrees to marry her. In a rarity I think for singer he describes the sexual joy of their first night together and in the morning a sexually awakened dr f looks out the window at the cosmos above and acknowledges that he has become someone Spinoza would call a fool - tho we might call him a mensch. Also rea John Cheever' story the fourth alarm, about a suburban husband (of course) spurred to seek a divorce when his wife becomes an actor and takes a role in a play in manhattan that involves nudity and on-stage sexual acts. In my view this embittered story is one of jc's weakest and hold little interest except inform its offered insight on Cheever's repressed homosexuality, his tension between suburban propriety and urban exuberance, and his strained relationship w his wife, a poet ever competitive w her husband's literary success. Why ri cassill chose this story over so many better ones (the airplane crash story, the brotherly rivalry story, e.g.) is a mystery - perhaps to settle a grudge against a rival?