Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s The Cuban Swimmer starts in media res: Margarita Suárez‚ a 19-year-old swimmer‚ is competitively swimming in a race from San Pedro to San Catalina while her family guides her way from a boat. With the support and on-going praise of her loved ones and her passion for the sport‚ Margarita Suárez vigorously pushes herself through the cold Pacific Ocean not only to achieve her hopes‚ dreams‚ and the prize‚ but also to bring her family pride and honor. While she does stand up for
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Riley Swortz Leslie Michael English 107 4/22/15 Essay 1‚ Word Count: 971 The play “The Cuban Swimmer” seems to be a run-of-the-mill coming of age story‚ where a young girl finds her confidence to be herself‚ and shows her family that she can handle her life on her own. However‚ it is not just Margarita who is coming into herself in this play. Her younger brother‚ Simon‚ deals with a crisis of his own in this story. His sister goes missing at sea‚ and suddenly‚ he cannot imagine what
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The Swimmer Are you scared? Anxious? Afraid? Fearful? No? Mull it over. Still no? I don’t believe you. If yes‚ don’t worry‚ we all are. Almost everyone has a fear of something. Sometimes it is the fear of what comes next‚ the fear of making a bad decision‚ the fear of emotions‚ the fear of a specific person and sometimes it is just the fear of rippling water from the nearby river that plagues a person the most. Great or small we are all haunted by someone or something and face a choice with regards
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The Swimmer “The Swimmer” by John Cheever is a very interesting short story with many wrinkles‚ leaving the reader wondering what is actually real or surreal. I plan to clear up any confusion left by Cheever and try to critically analyze the message he is trying to convey. The narrator begins by following the main character‚ the young‚ adventurous‚ and suburbanized Ned Merrill on a Sunday quest to rise above complacency. The energetic Ned Merrill wakes up hung over on a beautiful Sunday morning
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The Swimmer “The Swimmer” is an allegorical story of Neddy Merrill‚ the protagonist‚ and his journey home from the cocktail party that was eight miles away from his home through private and public swimming pools on Sunday afternoon that depicts his journey through life. The author presents the protagonist both directly and indirectly and tells the story in third person point of view that leads him to reveals the protagonist’s thoughts. “Neddy names his journey Lucinda River after his wife to invoke
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Department of English and American Studies Philosophical Faculty Palacký University in Olomouc English philology – Archaeology ̒The Swimmer ̓: The Symbolism of the Seasonal Change KAA/AJC1 Freshmen composition 9th December 2012 This essay will focus on John Cheever ̓s short story ̒ The Swimmer ̓ (1964)‚ specifically on its symbolism of the seasonal change. The following paragraphs aim towards showing that the seasonal change which frames the whole story symbolizes
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The Swimmer The short story “The Swimmer” is about an unnamed woman‚ whose personal life we are not really told anything about. She sits at her desk in a tiny office in her house from where she can see the river that runs close to the house. It is a hot summer day and after a while the woman cannot stand the heat anymore. She decides to drop the work that she is in the middle of and go swimming in the river instead. Standing in front of the river she shortly let her fear for the river take over but
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“The Swimmer” Contemporary literature has many themes. One can generalize Contemporary Literature as a mixture of nostalgia and unhappiness. John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”‚ symbolically demonstrates the repression of unaccepted memories and the inability to come face to face with reality with swimming pools and climate change. Cheever applied the swimming pools in the story to portray the time being passed. In “a long swim might enlarge and celebrate its beauty… …The swim was too much for his strength
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The Swimmer Something might change everything in blink of an eye and that change can be huge. You might lose your respect or lose everything you had during that change‚ not even realizing that. In “The Swimmer” by John Cheever‚ shows that how the main character loses everything he had when he drinks too much. According to author‚ main character Neddy Merrill feels like an explorer and decides to get home by swimming all the pools in his neighborhood. He was famous and knew everyone
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The Swimmer Symbolism In the Swimmer the character (Neddy) swims through several pools on a journey he believes would “enlarge and celebrate its beauty” (251). These pools and the journey he swims symbolize the passing of time and the deterioration of his health. He began his journey feeling as though he was young and strong‚ “he seemed to have the especial slenderness of youth” (250). He seems to be very content with his life and his friendships. As he was swimming in his own pool the character
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