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What is the name of the main character?
Who is Neddy Merrill?
What does the main character use to escape from his everyday struggles?
What is alcohol?
"I ___ too much last night"
What is drank?
What is the name of the swimmer's wife?
Who is Lucinda Merrill?
Explain to the presenters' satisfaction a theme in The Swimmer?
What is ex.) addiction, internal vs external, denial, delusion, beliefs vs. reality etc.
"They went for broke overnight -- nothing but income -- and he showed up drunk one Sunday and asked us to loan him ___."
How many kids does the main character have?
What is 4 kids?
In what season does the story begin?
What is Summer?
"___ would warm him, pick him up, carry him through the last of his journey, refresh his feeling that it was original and valorous to swim across the county."
What is whiskey?
Who wrote The Swimmer?
Who is John Cheever?
What was the weather at the end of the story
What is clear skies?
"The house was locked, and he thought that the stupid ___ or the stupid maid must have locked the place up until he remembered that it had been some time since they had employed a maid or a ___."
What is cook?
What is the name of the elderly couple who own the oldest pool in the county?
Who are the Hallorans?
What was the second thing he noticed when he approached his house?
What is The rain gutters had been knocked off by the thunderstorm?
"Making his way home by an uncommon route gave him the feeling that he was a pilgrim, an explorer, a man with a destiny, and he knew that he would find friends all along the way; friends would line the banks of the ____ ____"
What is Lucinda River?