Aquatic Hopelessness In John Cheever's short story, "The Swimmer," introduces immediately the main character Neddy Merrill. A seemingly upper class man, with four beautiful daughters and nice home in a wealthy neighborhood, the reader gets the ... of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?" (p. 626) He could not even remember his friends moving away. This can only indicate that he wanted to block out the terrible things in his life, or that he was so mentally out of things that he could not remember. His insanity is what ultimately pushed himself out of ... the ring wi...

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