Life, Enjoy it All In the Swimmer by Johns Cheever, the life of a man, Neddy from the suburbs, is being portrayed from being normal to loneliness and then to isolation. Suburbia is often perceived as a lifestyle where it people live in homes that look very similar, cookie cutter homes, just outside the city within commuting distance. This story shows a more defined consider the downward fall of Neddy Merrill’s life through the time travel via summer events. Going back to nice summer day, with those privileged individuals who can afford to not work and hang out by the pool yapping away about having “drank too much” (Norton, p.2363). We the audience are being told that Neddy and his family are well off by informing us that wife, and self …show more content…
Levy had bought in Kyoto the year before last, or was it the before that?” (Norton, p. 2365) As his journey gets even hazier and more unclear and while the voices of the suburbia people partying in their backyards laughing and having fun we see a “fish out of water” as they say in the statement saying there was a man standing on the highway in swim trunks. We can now tell he is more confused and is wondering where he is in life at this point. Yet still committed to getting home he is continues his journey and thinking that only an hour has elapsed and thinks he is hearing faint voices from the pool party he just left. As his life is transitions, we are informed that it is transitioning from one class to another by the simple representation of public pool versus the private ones he has been accustomed too. As he continues his travels, although not his normal lifestyle now, noises are much louder and the beautiful lawns are no more. Until now we know his life has changed but it is more apparent when Mrs. Loran says: “We’ve been terribly sorry to hear about all your misfortunes, Neddy.” (Norton, p. 2367). His journey, life, is wearing him down and is feeling tired all over and looking in bad