The Swimmerrrrrrr

Cleaver, The Swimmer
Page 1492.


“He was disappointed and mystified. It was common enough to go away for the summer but no one ever drained his pool. The Welchers had definitely gone away.”


In this quote, Ned is confused because the Welchers are out of the norm. The normal family never drains their pool, not even when they leave for the summer. This is so out of the ordinary that Ned is not only disappointed, but also mystified. He can’t think of why someone would do this, even though it not really that big of a deal. The backyard pool in suburbia is a necessity, and having drained it is almost like a crime to Ned.



Cleaver, The Swimmer
Page 1489.


“It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, ‘I drank too much last night.’ You might have heard it whispered by the parishioners leaving the church, heard it from the priest himself, struggling with his cassock in the vestiarium, heard it from the golf links and the tennis courts, heard it form the wildlife preserve where the leader of the Audubon group was suffering from a terrible hangover.”


In this passage the narrator reveals how everyone does the exact same thing on Saturday night. Everyone drinks. The narrator tells that absolutely everyone drinks, but mentioning athletes, environmentalists, and even the priest. This emphasizes how similar everyone is in the county.


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