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Neddy Merrill
At the beginning of the story, Lucinda is Neddy Merrill’s wife, but, by the end, she and their four daughters have left him. Neddy collectively names the series of swimming pools he swims “the Lucinda River,” perhaps in an unconscious act of contrition for his failures as a husband and father.
Lucinda Quotes in The Swimmer
The The Swimmer quotes below are all either spoken by Lucinda or refer to Lucinda. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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He seemed to see, with a cartographer’s eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county. He had made a discovery, a contribution to modern geography; he would name the stream Lucinda after his wife. He was not a practical joker nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.
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Lucinda Quotes in The Swimmer
The The Swimmer quotes below are all either spoken by Lucinda or refer to Lucinda. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
The Swimmer
Quotes
He seemed to see, with a cartographer’s eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county. He had made a discovery, a contribution to modern geography; he would name the stream Lucinda after his wife. He was not a practical joker nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.
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