What is your interpretation of the short story “The Swimmer”?
Paloma
García 1ºNA
1. I think what the swimmer's author
tries to say is that the American dream is not like everyone imagines. The book
starts in a beautiful sunny summer day, when he decides to go home swimming
through his neighbour's pools. He starts very opimistic and full of energy but
as the time is passing the weather changes to the worse, he sarts getting tired
and his neighbours began to think he is a fool, even one of them tells him he
had broken overnight. After a hard journey, he arrives home and found it empty
and completly locked.
Say which of the two short stories we have read in
this book you’ve liked more and why.
2. Without any doubt I've liked Benjamin
Buttonn more. First of all because I knew this story through the film and
second Because I found it a funny story some way.
The situation was almost comical though
it was a tragedy. I think it is a gripping tale.
Indeed, the second story is sadder and more difficult to understand, that their game with time makes it a little surrealistic.
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