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i believe that because he is so self centered he never noticed that he went broke and had no money. so at the end of the story he reaches his house and its empty. this is because he had to sell it. throughout the story we get clues that he is no longer as well off has he use to be. People continuously talk of somebody being bankrupt and of how he has asked for money.
I think that the main reason that he did not notice that he is now poor is because off his addiction to alcohol and so he still had not realized what the reality was until he reaches "home."
At the beginning of 'The Swimmer' Ned begins to talk about alcohol and we begin to assume that he has an addiction to it. We find out that he is trying to swim around the county by going through his neighbors pools and such. As he stops at every different person's house he learns something knew every time about himself that he did not know. He is eventually accused of selling his house and is asked about where his kids are and how they are doing. He answers the question by saying they are home and fine, which is not true. I believe that the reason he is confused and fazed is due to his addiction to alcohol. When he finally reaches his home we find out that it is true that he sold his house and it is completely empty. Due to the alcohol, Ned completely dug his life into a deep hole. He ruined his relationship with his girlfriend and had an affair and eventually went bankrupt. I think Ned's life went down so low that he eventually kept telling himself in his mind that everything was still alright, even though this was certainly not the case.
By the end of "Swimmer," Neddy Merrill is fatigued from swimming and has come to the realization that he is now homeless and his children have been taken away into protective custody. This is all due to the fact that he is an alcoholic and has gone bankrupt. Throughout the story, there are many hints and symbols that can be seen to support my claim. One big hint that he is homeless is when he goes and swims in Mrs. Halloran's pool. She says, " We've been terribly sorry to hear about all your misfortunes, Neddy. Why we heard that you'd sold the house and that your poor children..."
This suggests that, due to alcoholism and the inability to support his family, his children were placed into a protective system and that he and his wife are now living homeless. This one big hint guides the reader to the realization that Neddy IS homeless. At the end of the story, he discovers this to be true when he arrives 'home' to find that it is just an empty locked up building.
By the end of Swimmer Neddy Merrill realizes he has lost everything. He decided to swim across the country and on the way he stopped at many peoples homes. Each time someone would hint at how he sold his house and ask about his family. However, Neddy just ignored these signs and continued on his journey. With only a few more pools left Neddy starts talking about alcohol and how he needs a drink. This makes it seem like he may be an alcoholic. Neddy is to concerned about finishing his journey and worried about himself to realize what is occuring around him. By the time he gets home his house is empty, and all the doors are locked. His family was also no where in sight. I think because of Neddy's drinking and because he was focused on himself and no one else that he lost his home, his family and had no money.
At the end of "swimmer" Neddy realizes that he does not have a home and that he is the person every one was talking about with losing all the money that he had.
As we go though the story you can tell some thing is wrong with Neddy because each new pool he goes to the more and more the people at them dislike him or tell him that he sold his house or that he left his girls or saying he is always asking to borrow money or deny him money.
I think that he did not know what was going o in his life because he had an alcohol addiction and at the end of the story you could see the more sober he was the less he knew about his life and the darker it got.
By the end of “The Swimmer,” Neddy Merrill has become older and a drunk. His family has also left him because of this problem, which has also caused him to go broke. Hints of this are everywhere throughout the story. The first hint comes when he feels colder when the storm passes. This suggests that the summer has past and fall has begun. The next hint is when he finds the Welchers house up for sale, after seeing them what he thought was a week ago. Another hint is when he meets Mrs. Hallorans. She tells him that she is sorry for his misfortunes that caused him to sell his house. When she says this, she has no clue what she is talking about. A continuing hint that goes on from after he encounters her is that it is getting harder for him to keep his journey up, and his joints start aching. This suggests that he is getting older as his journey goes on. The next clue is when he visits one of his close friends and asks for a drink, only to find out that he has had an operation and can no longer drink. This suggests that he is losing his memories or has been drinking too much. Another hint is when he comes in on a party and is treated very lowly compared to everyone else. He is called a “gate crasher” and the bartender treats him unkindly. He also hears someone say “they went broke overnight- nothing but income- and he showed up drunk one Sunday and asked us to loan him five thousand dollars…” Although his name is not mentioned, you can tell she is talking bout him by the way he is being treated by the other guests.
In the beginning of the swimmer, we are given many clues to Neds way of life. He is described as seeming very young and immature. He sets out an entire day to just drink and swim in random peoples pools and not do anything. As the story progresses we are given more and more information of his life; how he cheated on his wife, went bankrupt, and his lack of involvement in his kids life. His exchanges with people throughout the day, as well as his addiction to alcohol leave him with an empty sad realization about his life by the end of the story. The final scene is when he reaches his home and it is empty; i think this is symbolism for himself and his life. He is probably some sort of alcoholic and his life seems to be going on almost without him.
At the beginning of the story he was all happy about his journey, and he had become an explorer. As he goes through all his neighbors homes it mentioned that he had gone bankrupt and that he had lost his kids. When he arrived to his house he thought it was a cook or a maid who had locked the doors but then he thought more, and remembers that he had fired his cooks and maids. This hints about his money loss as well. When he arrives at his X-wife’s house he expects her to be all over him and sad but she is not at all. She has moved on and left him behind. At someone’s house he was told that a party when he was drunk he asked for a loan of five thousand dollars. As soon as he arrives at her house she immediately tells him she will not donate or loan any money to him. She does not even allow him to take a drink. Also by the end of the story He can not lift himself up out of the pool. So he swims around to the ladder and gets out. The way he entered was also slightly different because he decides to slowly creep in. a couple symbols would be the rusty handles on his garage door, the loose gutters and the empty house all symbolizing the fact that he was going poor. Another important Symbol would be the seasons. During the day when he was happy he described it as a nice midsummer day. By the night he was having trouble remembering things; his memory was failing in its old age. Later on in the night it slowly became more serious of a journey and also he began to describe it as a cold lonely autumn night.
I believe by the end of the story Ned finally relizes right before his eyes what has happened. His life has completly fallen apart, he losses his family and goes bankrupt and ends up selling his house. Ned has come to this sad conclusion in life due to his addiction to alcohol. He got caught up in this addicition and losses his sense of what is important in life. Is five glasses of gin important or being succesful and having a family. For him the gin took control and that became his fate. Ned was in such a state of denial. He woke up on a sunday morning from a hangover at a wonderful estate and goes for a swim. He still is stuck in living this glamours life when in reality his is all over.
By the end of the swimmer, Neddy Merrill realizes that he has lost his home and family. Neddy probably was an alcoholic because the story mentions how people would say "I drank too much last night." Also, every few houses he would stop and have a drink and by the end he must have had at least 10 drinks. By the end of the story Neddy figures out that his family had left him, and he is all alone. His family probably left him because of his alcoholism and affair with his mistress. He cannot recall whether it was last week, last month, or last year that he had the affair. This is evidence that he cannot remember much of anything. As the story comes towards the end, more and more people whose pools he swims in start to sympathize for him. They feel bad for him because he does not have a family or home anymore. By the end of the story it is clear that Neddy is broke and without a family because of his alcoholism/messing around.
At the end of the short story "Swimmer", Neddy Merrill has a lot of problems which are shown to the reader through hints in the story. For example, It mentions him overhearing someone talk about a person became broke overnight and came for a $5000 loan and after him talking to Mrs. Halloran, it seems that he sold his house, confirmed at the end when he finds his house empty. Also, it seems that Neddy is an alcoholic and is losing his memory.
Through the course of Neddy's journey across the country, Neddy meets many people as he is swimming in their pools. Whenever he meets someone, the ask about his life, how is your family, how is your house, etc. Neddy did not pay any attention to these comments and just continued on his journey across the country. As Neddy gets closer and closer to the finish line he starts talking about getting a drink, which might imply that he has a drinking problem. When he returns home, he finds his house empty and locked up. It seems like Neddy's family has left him because Neddy was never around and when he was he was probably drinking gin.
By the end of “The Swimmer,” Ned Merrill eventually realizes that he is a poor homeless and his children are segregated from him due to his incapability of taking care of them with supportive financial conditions. Throughout the story, the author gives many hints which indicate his abnormal mental conditions and his serious metal disorder due to the habitual alcoholism. One of descriptions of his abnormal behavior is that he wanders around his neighborhood, seeking swimming pools and such. The relationship with his girl friend is already messed up and he eventually goes bankrupt. In order to pay his debt, he ends up with selling his home. However, until the last part of the story, Ned doesn’t admit the fact, or at least, is not acknowledged of his abysmal situation. Standing in front of his old house, Ned thinks “Was it so late that they had all gone to bed? Had Lucinda stayed at the Westerhazy’s for supper?” However, the place was dark and in fact, the house was clearly empty. In addition to the plot settings, one of the symbols of the story, stormy and gloomy weather indicates his sullen conditions. It stands for his desperate but helpless situation.
By the end of the story, Ned thinking that he is so much better than everyone else, forgets that he is in fact, less than. He couldn't take care of his wife or kids and forgot it all through a drunken stupor. When he finally realizes how he is so alone, it is too late and his house is empty. His constant obbbsession with getting a drink leads me to belive that he lost his way of life to an alchohol addiction.
By the end of the swimmer Ned Merril is no longer able to swim, he is fatigued and has now began to realize that he doesn't have a family anymore. During his travels I think the only thing on his mind was finishing his journey, not caring for anyone else, only self achievement. He forgot about his kids that he left or even his beautiful house that was no longer his, but was sold due to a loss of money. His self centered attitude finally caught up to him, for he no longer has a house to live in, nor does he have a family to be around.
He has been away, doing his "Swim Across the Country" for so long, that eventually, his family had left him, and moved out of the house. In the story,some important symbols are: his drinking habbits and how he explains that it starts to get cold. He doesnt realize, but he has actually spent a very long time doing his swim, that seasons have actually passed. He is unaware, and somewhat oblivious because of his drinking habbit.
at the end of end of " the Swimmer"
neddy merrill is very tired and cannot swim anymore. his self centered attitude led him to beleive that he was going to be this legendary person by doing what he did, when really it got him even more miserable. every house he went to poeple liked him less and less. poeple would tell him how sorry they are about his house and his fammily. he comes to realize how real this all was. thinking he left for only an afternoon, when he really left for month,neddy lost everything. it is impossible to argue that his addiction to alcohole and his self centered attidute tought him a very harsh life lesson!
By the end of "The Swimmer" Neddy Merrill has realized what he has lost throughout his life. He swims through multiple pools to get home. Neddy's journey symbolizes an alcoholic's journey through the process of realizing their problem. Neddy has lost his house, and his children to his addiction. At one point in the journey, the author uses symbolism to represent a crossroads in Neddy's journey. On page 147, Neddy is on the side of Route 424, helpless, with no dignity or humor. Here he can go back to the Westerhazys' or continue on. He is determined to finish this journey because like an addiction to alcohol, Neddy brought this journey upon himself. Neddy is going to complete this journey even if his life is in danger.
By the end of Swimmer. Neddy realizes he has lost everything, his house, his children, and his pride that came with both of those. Through out the whole story we get hints through quotes that reveal that Neddy loses what he has. I think he is so clueless about this whole situation because he drinks alot. Another reason would reason could be that he knows things are going down the tubes and he doesn't want that to be reality. I think the greatest hint is when Creever said," Had you gone on a Sunday afternoon ride that day you might have seen him,close to naked, standing on the shoulders of route 424, waiting for a chance to cross. The next sentence after just sums up his life after he goes bankrupt. "Standing barefoot in the deposits of the highway-beer cans,rags, and blowout patches..."
At the end of "The Swimmer" Ned finally comes to realize what has become of his life. This story takes place over a season, not just a day. In the beginning of the story everything is good ned has a wife, kids, money, mansion, and high status. Over the course of his swim through the county things seem to go wrong. It first happens when Mrs. Halloran gives Ned sympathy for the loss of his house and kids, but ned does not seem to recall. He is surprised to hear this, but does not pay attnetion to this. The next encounter was when Ned crashed his neighbos parties and the host says, " well this party has everything, even gate crashers." this is odd for Ned to hear becuase before the Westerhazy's yould invite him and his family out to dinner and invtie them to all of their parties. Ned see's that he is not welcome and goes to Shirley Adams pool. Even she will not tolerate Ned. When he realizes he is not wanted anywhere he goes to his house and finds it empty. He then gets out of this beligerent state and realizes that his house, money, and family have all left him. I believe that the reason why he drinks so much is to get away from his problems, but his problems are still there when he sobers up. I think Ned and Lucinda gambled their money in the stock market and lost it all. I think that Lucinda found out about Shirley adams. I also believe that Ned's children got into serious tourble with the law maybe with alcohol or drugs because their father was the life of the party and maybe they looked up to him. When ned is sober he finally can see what has happened and that is why he has gotten so depressed.
By the end of the story, Neddy Merrill was in a desperate realization of his addiction to alcohol. He saw that after his journey of jumping into pool, his addiction caused him to sell his house and abandon his family for just one more drink.Throughout his life of drinking he was in a constant state of denial and how he was really dependant on alchohol, but really he was. His addiction caused him to leave his family and it's what truly brought him to the point where he had nothing left
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