The Swimmer

The Swimmer Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • Change is Always for the Worse
  • The Symptomatic Colors in John Cheever's ‘The Swimmer.’
  • John Cheever: The ‘Swimming’ of America
  • Perverted Sacraments in John Cheever's ‘The Swimmer.’
  • The River of Names in ‘The Swimmer.’
  • ‘The Swimmer’: A Midsummer's Nightmare
  • Allusions to The Great Gatsby in John Cheever's ‘The Swimmer.’
  • Peter Rugg and Cheever's Swimmer: Archetypal Missing Men
  • Cheever's Dark Knight of the Soul: The Failed Quest of Neddy Merrill
  • Damned in a Fair Life: Cheever's ‘The Swimmer.’
  • Lisbon and Hackensack in Cheever's ‘The Swimmer.’
  • John Cheever's ‘The Swimmer’ and the Abstract Standpoint of Kantian Moral Philosophy
• Further Reading