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The story takes place in a very wealthy neighborhood where almost everyone has a pool. Not your average above ground pool, but enormous in-ground pools, some fed by streams. One hot summer day a man named Neddy Merrill was swimming at the Westerhazy’s pool, “Neddy Merrill sat by the green water, one hand in it, one around a glass of gin” (369) He is described as a slender man, a man of youth even though he is not young. “He might be described as a summers day…” (369) Cheever compares Needy to a su
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Neddy decides he is going to try and swim to his house 8 miles away in Bullet Park. He should have seen it coming but he obviously didn’t catch on . He swam half way home and he already had 4 or 5.
“Was his memory failing him or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he damaged the sense of the truth. mmer’s day to show Needy as a warm, sporty person, without a care in the world. The garage was locked and the door handle was rusty. It seems as though that he had hid the unpleasant realities of life from his mind that he had forgotten the last few years of his life. It seems as though everyone was having friends over, he was offered many drinks. He feels the “string of swimming pools” (369) can take him home. ” (372) Further down along the trip he notices more and more things out of the ordinary, thing he doesn’t remember. “ He felt tired, clean, and pleased at the moment to be alone, pleased with everything.
On his was home he knew he would see many friends and didn’t want to be slowed down by conversation so he would have to be slick and slip away whenever he got tied up.
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