The Swimmer Essay example -- essays research papers

     "The Swimmer" by John Cheever describes Neddy Merrils" move" home. Neddy is a husband and a father, he is as well as a drunk. The story encompasses about twenty dollar bill years of his bearingof alcohol which ruined not only him but also hisrelationship with his family. 1 day after waking up with ahang everyplace he drinks a little and decides to swim home. It isobvious he is a drunk because he is constantly searching fora drink on his swim home.      Neddy was a loaded man living in a wealthy high classneighborhood in Connecticut. He lived with his wife andkids. He was popular and had material possessions. He wasliving the good life, maybe also good. He was well respectedand could usually be found at virtuoso of the invite only partiesin his area.      Neddy awoke from with a hangover one day and decided toswim home via the Lucinda river. The river was composed ofthe pools of people in his neig hborhood. It was his versionof "pool hopping" his way home. The story seems to takeplace over the course of a day but is, in fact, a twentyyear period of his life in which alcoholism takes over hislife and causes his family to desert him. Each pool he hopssymbolizes a party he attended at that house some time overthe course of the twenty years. Some pools bring back goodmemories with the parties which attach to them. some notso good such as the mankind pool which wouldnt accept...