I believe this cover is meant mostly for an audience of politicians. Many points are touched on by the illustrator shown in the picture. Bed bugs, cigarettes, and stress stand out to the audience more than regularly. The bed bugs signifies a stressed out bedbug pulling it together with his partner in the city. Politics would understand this through knowledge on bed bugs, cigarettes, and the stress that comes with it. But, the main point they would understand is how the illustrator is relating the bedbug to the bug in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. In this book, a regular working man wakes up as a bug and has to continue living life in his situation.
Looking deeper into The New YorkerWithin the magazine different ads are shown that relate back to covers main theme. Ads are shown on saving the environment, health care, save the city tips, credit cards, laptops, phones, cars, television shows, the list goes on... All of these ads can all be found in the city (The New Yorker). The New Yorker illustrator draws a political field to address the topic of an hard working city man while still engaged within interesting ads and meaningful illustrations.
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