Swim The Fly Characters

The main characters in Swim The Fly are Matt, Sean, and Cooper. All three of them have a goal of seeing a naked girl before the end of the summer. Sean and Cooper want to achieve this without a girl knowing. While Matt takes the traditional route by trying to impress a girl via the 100 yard butterfly. Sean's personality in this book is very rude, immature and funny. Cooper's personality is equivalent to Sean’s just with more idiotism and unawareness of the situations they are in most of the time. Matt is more on the matureside out of all these characters, he is shy, and also on the calm side. On the first attempt to see a Naked girl Sean, Matt, and Cooper prepare themselves very heavily with girl clothing and makeup so they can sneak into the girl's locker room, undetected. Unfortunately an hour before they were able to make it …show more content…
In order to do this, Matt ended up asking his older brother if he could use his dumbbells to get into shape. While doing so 1 hour into his workout, because of his unfit body, he ended up falling back into his brothers airplane model. This caused his brother to prevent him from ever working out with his equipment again. Finally when the competition came , Matt was not prepared to “Swim the Fly” and had to get out of the situation without making a fool out of himself. Coop being a good friend, figured out a plan that will make Matt not have to participate in the 100 fly. Since this was a private event, Coop decided to fake an injury during the period that Matt needed to swim. Even though the three friends were unable to see a naked girl before summer, they learned that everything has its own time and will come at an appropriate time in their lives. In this story, swimming was used to bring together all three of the boys and also give them a chance to make contact with the other