The swimmer
It has been said that sometimes you have to look at where you have been to see where it is that you are going, but there are some people who fail to look at who they have become, and suddenly find themselves faced with a reality they don’t remember or understand. In “The Swimmer” by John Cheever, (1964, Rpt. In Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. Ed. Thomas Arp. 7th ed. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1998. 392…
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…hardly walk up his own driveway.
Whether or not Ned had actually gone through his travels, or if they were created in his mind are still unclear as the story ends, but either way, it is quite obvious that Ned failed to watch at where his life was going, and suddenly found himself without anything. And the truly sad part about his losses is that Ned can’t even remember what had happened.
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