Reader Reaction to John Cheevers The Swimmer Essay -- Cheever Swimmer

Reader Reaction to John Cheevers The Swimmer   One of the main ideas that is conveyed in John Cheevers The Swimmer is the centering in which life consists of different mental stages and how they each affect the consciousness of the mind. In The Swimmer, Neddy goes through different swimming pools and this represents the different trips in his life. He progresses from boundless optimism to endless despair as the seasons go by.  The times when Neddy is in or out of the water also represents the emotions he is going through and perhaps finish correlate to the emotions felt throughout the duration of ones life. For example, when Neddy is not swimming, he tends to feel down or aggravated. During this sad period, he is usually in search of alcohol.   all the same after he has had a drink or two, he is always ready to go back into the pools, which shows a lot about Neddys ambitious character. Neddys journey through the pools is longer than an afternoon.  In fact, we see this when he mentions the storm passing and the season change is shown through the phrase red and yellow leaves. When Neddy finally reaches home, he is tired and weak. This displays aging through life and how one be counts fatigued easily as life goes on. When he sees that no one is home, it is obvious that Neddys journey has come to an end and it seems as though Neddy has died, because his home can symbolize the heart and the soul, and since no one is home, Neddys heart and soul is dead.         Although The Swimmer and the recent American pick out A Beautiful Mind both have differing plots, their main characters have some commonalities. Russell Crowe, the young mathematician who becomes a natural code ... ...xpected of him with his wife and kids having left him.  It was pull in that Neddy was also annoyed at this point in time, however before he blew up at Mrs. Biswanger, she suddenly became nice to him once again. This part in the s tory goes to show how cruel society can be, and instead of helping out Neddy in his poor state, he is disrespected and furthermore, abandoned.  It is also evident that friends can be betraying and deceiving and that one can never be too sure about their status. I feel that the society in which Neddy is living is quite shallow and irrational. Neddy is an abject character and his treatment from Mrs. Biswanger shows her nature of thinking that friends are expendable which in my opinion is quite irrational.  It also shows that the status in ones culture weighs heavily on their association with certain people.