Alcoholism In The Swimmer By John Cheever

In "The Swimmer" of John Cheever's, the main character named Neddy is a well- known and respected man. However, his neighbors complained about Neddy's hangover and these strange things that he does. Neddy's never cared about a negative thing around him. He just wants to finish his journey, even though he starts to endure some turmoil at the beginning, but he doesn't stop. In fact, the author has built this character to show how human nature affects people daily life and show how they survive to acquiring frustration. The symbolism that Cheever made for Neddy clear show everything that people today having trouble with, such as alcoholism, loneliness and having depressive. Alcoholism plays a harmful role in Neddy's life because it has been ruined due to his independent on his awful constitution. Also, alcoholic affect in the family, friend changes toward Neddy. Since in the first two sentence, that already shows how he drink overnight, "I drank too much last night" (Cheever 776). However, he …show more content…
He is passing out because he loses everything he had done. The reason why he wants to "swim to home" because he wants to get more relaxing by swimming pool to pool. These neighborhoods may think he is crazy, but that is the way to extenuate himself from so many stress he had. In fact, depression is not only a state of being sad. It is a disease that conquers the ability to feel emotion, whether good or bad, whatsoever. As in the story, sometime Neddy losing his mind to do awful things, it just because he can't control his mind. He wants to do everything he wants, and never give up. Everyone is alienated from him because of his character, and his action in every situation. He sucks a good man, but what he does makes people misunderstand that he is not normal. In consequence, Neddy action makes people confuse and misunderstand about his normal life, and they also think that Neddy is a crazy