"Thus Clyde was dismissed into a tainted world where things evaded his focus"
I think this quote is important because it reflects how important our fundamentals are. When Dr. Pennypacker puts the drops in Clyde's eyes, Clyde sees his vision drop drastically. He is then very afraid because everything is getting very obscure quickly. He realizes that people like Janet were even judging him. In the end he realizes that his obscure vision started way before he got the drops in his eyes because he didn’t realize what kind a person Janet was.
“He tucked the note back into his shirt pocket and its stiffness there made a shield for his heart.”
Clyde once dated Janet. He probably got bored and he decided to break up. He probably broke her heart when that happened. Now that they are both married and have separate families, Clyde is although still attracted to her and asks to meet her again. When she gives him the letter, he puts it in his shirt pocket and that letter makes a shield and protects his heart from breaking.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
The Swimmer
Quotes The swimmer:
1. “I drank too much last night”(p.1489) John Cheever makes a big deal out of alcohol in this story. He is doing so, because the message he is sending to the readers is that things like families and homes can be lost very easily. He is thus, using drinking as an example of that. Drinkers are subject to loose things that they care about because they are not present for them anymore.
2. “He had been swimming and now he was breathing deeply,”(p.1490) this story starts when Ned feels he should swim 8.5 miles… all the way to his house. At the beginning everything is very optimistic and flowing easily. But as the story is progressing, Ned is getting more and more tired. The more pools he crosses the more people are getting weird, and the time is going faster and faster. When he gets home he realizes his wife and children left, and his house is now abandoned, and has been for a while. This story tells us that the longer you’re away from the thigs you care the quicker you will loose them.
1. “I drank too much last night”(p.1489) John Cheever makes a big deal out of alcohol in this story. He is doing so, because the message he is sending to the readers is that things like families and homes can be lost very easily. He is thus, using drinking as an example of that. Drinkers are subject to loose things that they care about because they are not present for them anymore.
2. “He had been swimming and now he was breathing deeply,”(p.1490) this story starts when Ned feels he should swim 8.5 miles… all the way to his house. At the beginning everything is very optimistic and flowing easily. But as the story is progressing, Ned is getting more and more tired. The more pools he crosses the more people are getting weird, and the time is going faster and faster. When he gets home he realizes his wife and children left, and his house is now abandoned, and has been for a while. This story tells us that the longer you’re away from the thigs you care the quicker you will loose them.
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