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     "The Swimmer" by John Cheever describes Neddy Merrils"swim" home. Neddy is a husband and a father, he is also adrunk. The story encompasses about(predicate) twenty years of his lifeof alcohol which ruined not only him but also hisrelationship with his family. One day after waking up with ahangover he topes a little and decides to swim home. It isobvious he is a drunk because he is constantly searching fora drink on his swim home.      Neddy was a wealthy man living in a wealthy high classneighborhood in Connecticut. He lived with his married woman andkids. He was popular and had material possessions. He wasliving the unspoilt life, maybe too good. He was well respectedand could usually be found at one of the invite only partiesin his area.      Neddy awoke from with a hangover one day and decided toswim home via the Lucinda river. The river was composed ofthe pools of people in his neighborhood. It w as his transformationof "pool hopping" his way home. The story seems to takeplace over the course of a day but is, in fact, a twentyyear flow rate of his life in which alcoholism takes over hislife and causes his family to desert him. Each pool he hopssymbolizes a party he attended at that house some time overthe course of the twenty years. Some pools bring back goodmemories with the parties which accompanied them. some notso good such as the public pool which wouldnt accept...