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The short story “The Swimmer” is representative of John Cheever’s suburban stories,which shows the vivid pictures of middle class people’s “happy life” mode.The question is that is such a “happy life” really happy.After analyzing the protagonist Neddy Merril’s Odyssean journey,the author concludes that so-called a “happy life” is no more than an illusion.
The short story “The Swimmer ” is representative of John Cheever’s suburban stories, which shows the vivid pictures of middle class people’s “happy life ” mode. The question is that is such a “happy life ” really happy. After analyzing the protagonist Neddy Merril’s Odyssean journey, the author concludes that so-called a “happy life ” is no more than an illusion.