'Neddy Merrill In The Swimmer'

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The starting of “The Swimmer”, Neddy Merrill was a well-respected, wealthy youthful, strong, healthy, and athletic but when the story ends, he is all alone, no family nor friends, as he is also aged, weak and can’t get his head around of the situation he is in. The story seem to have happened for hours but it took almost half of Neddy’s life without him realizing.
It was a fine and hot day when the Merrill’s and the Westerhazy’s were sitting around the pool at the Westerhazy yard, each complaining about their hangovers as they are all drinking. Then the protagonist-Neddy Merrill, who decides to go home from his friends’ house by swimming through all the pools in his country. He thought of himself as a legendary figured person, a man with a

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