Swimming And Tiri Short Story Summary

Introduction

The character I was interested in describing was Tiri from a short story “Swimming and Tiri” written by Phil Kawana. The reason why I chose Tiri is because he is the most important person in the story. The second reason why I was interested in this character is because when he did some ruthless things to women, he never wanted his son to grow up and become like him. Tiri wanted his son to be a better person.

Tiri was a bad person. He would do bad things to girls and treat them badly. Tiri ‘‘warned her that If she told anyone he would kill her’’. I find Tiri a bad person in the story because he has no respect for women and also he threatens to kill them if they ever tell anyone. Tiri had to marry a woman named Mere because