The short story “Swimming” written by Marryman first published in 2011, in the short story we are following a women, told through a third person, she doesn’t fully understand why she have not jet swum in the river yet, so the question is, why hasn’t she swum before in the river? The themes of the short story “swimming” are growing up, to let go and just do it and loneliness. In the story, the woman’s name isn’t informed.
The main character in the story is a woman, who is approximately 25 years old. She is according to the narrator very hot, the story is based on her development, to become mature enough to jump in the water. One day, she went for swimming, she saw the opportunity when no one has passed the first bend for three hours …show more content…
Now just focused on the swimming moves. She is a good swimmer, and doesn’t have any troubling moving around. She decides to go upstream as far as the bridge behind her house, before heading back to work. She is enjoying the water as she swims in the cold water. She feels like she is invisible to the world, and the world is invisible to her. As she moves upstream, she sees the swam, what she is obviously afraid of which comes from her aunt's story about swans “her nan used to tell her a swan could break a man’s arm with its wing” she was afraid what it could do to her then. The swan is the second character in the story its body is almost as big as her own size and its neck stretches three feet above her, taut, elegantly, curved. She is too afraid to turn her back on the swan, and she moves silently. She moves with the current, and she lets it take her downstream and gets back onto the bank, where she puts back on her clothes, and heads back. At home, she couldn’t stop thinking about the swan, therefor she decide another swim at nightfall, at night when she went back to the river, she just was watching the swan, without entering the swans territory. The next evening she goes In again, ad this times she tries to move closer into the swans’s curve. And so it was for a few days she keeps returning to the river, and spending more time than ever in the water, she