John Cheever (1912-1982) was an American writer known for his keen, often critical, view of the American middle class. Known primarily for his short stories, his attention to detail and careful writing found the extraordinary in the ordinary. I have been...

Few American writers have been so clear in mapping their recurrent subject matter and themes as John Cheever. From his first published story, "Expelled," he has been concerned with the Fall from a condition of Edenic childlike innocence into the painful...

To outward appearances John Cheever was very much a child of the American twentieth century. Born just before World War I, he lived through the halcyon Jazz Age, suffered through the Depression, and served as a noncombatant in the army during World War I...

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The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-14-2003 SWIMMERS TO WATCH Date: 12-14-2003, Sunday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday SWIMMING PREVIEW SWIMMERS TO WATCH BOYS Bill Schwitter, Bergen Catholic, senior - With Gary Grant and Luke Fitzpatrick gone, Schwitter's excellence in...

American swimming star Ian Crocker rarely has much to say. That all changes when he sits down at his computer.He muses about the beauty of the Italian language. He shifts to the jazz stylings of 1930s guitarist Django Reinhardt. He even finds time to poke...

Critics of a Navy plan to use dolphins and sea lions to guard waters off the coast of a major submarine base say the ocean is too cold for the plan to work.Other critics who showed up at a public open house Tuesday questioned the...

In the following essay, Hughes and O'Hara consider “The Swimmer” in terms of Kantian philosophy.

In the following essay, Slabey declares “The Swimmer” to be “an imaginative vision of American reality,” comparing the story with Washington Irving's “Rip Van Winkle,” suggesting that both tales are “re-visions of archetypal Americans and situations which link the destiny of characters with the meaning of American history.”

In the following essay, Kozikowski views “The Simmer” as a spiritual allegory, akin to the work of Dante Alighieri.

Essay compares and contrasts the two journeys in "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty and "The Swimmer" by John Cheever.

Discusses the importance of social status to the character of Neddy in John Cheever's "The Swimmer."

This is a literary analysis of John Cheever's short story "The Swimmer."