Story Review: The Swimmer by John Cheever
It was a fine Sunday afternoon, and the sun was hot. Neddy Merrill was having a drink at the edge of a friends’s pool and it…
It was a fine Sunday afternoon, and the sun was hot. Neddy Merrill was having a drink at the edge of a friends’s pool and it…
If I am to choose an alternate title for this story, I would dub it “Symbolism of Swimming for Life.” Patiently, John Cheever guided his readers…
The Swimmer is Neddy Merrill who, apparently from out of the blue, and while lounging about at the poolside of some friends’ house one Sunday afternoon,…
The Swimmer opens with Neddy Merrill spending a summer day with his wife and their friends at the latter’s poolside and listening to their group complain…
November marks the start of the second semester in majority of the colleges and universities at this part of the world. It was more or less during…