In “The Swimmer”, John Cheever introduces the main character, Neddy Merrill, as a vibrant, successful and well-connected individual who is accustomed to enjoying life and is optimistic about tomorrow. He delights in living life unconstrained by the bounds placed on other men. His horizon is clear, untroubled, and summer reigns forever. The author uses foreshadowing in this story to illustrate that Ned is so sure of his place in life that he either pays no attention to the danger signs around him or, when he does notice them, intentionally misconstrues them as positive, or even as objects of delight.
Early in the story the first of the evil portents is shown to us in the form of “a massive stand of cumulus cloud” (pg. 297) off to the
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