The Swimmer Compare And Contrast Essay

The Swimmer- Compared and Contrasted Many books over the years have been turned into a movie. Many of the movies are that same as the book and many are completely different. But most movies have a little bit of both. Take for instance, ‘The Swimmer’. A little 10 page short story turned into a hour and a half long movie. So of course they had to add and take away information. But most of the time it is for us, the watchers, to understand the movie, better. When analyzing both the story and movie you realize there are a lot of differences, but also a lot of similarities. Not only with both of these things there is a lot of symbolism in the mix. At the very beginning there is already a lot of symbolism that we can see. We first meet Neddy, Lucinda, and the Westerhazy’s. The symbolism with the name Westerhazy is in two individual parts. The Wester part is meaning the west. Just like the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This is kind of foreshadowing the decline in Neddy throughout the story in his mental and physical stage and his age. The second part of the Westerhazy’s name is hazy. In the beginning, all four of them are talking about …show more content…
More differences than similarities, though. Neddy in the short story never realizes he was living a lie and blocking out all of the things he didn’t want to come true. But in the movie he finds out at the very end, that everything that happened was because of him. In the movie, we find out why his girls were in trouble (from drunk driving). In the story all we knew was that they were in trouble. In the movie we meet a few more people that gave more details to us why Neddy was like he was and his back story. So, the movie gave us more detail to where we can really be in Neddy’s life, unlike the story where it gave us a general area of him for the short time. If it wasn’t for the movie we would still be lost into why Neddy was like he