| "Happy life"—Is It Really Happy?——A Review of the Short story "The Swimmer" by John Cheever |
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| 引用本文： | 代玉萍."Happy life"—Is It Really Happy?——A Review of the Short story "The Swimmer" by John Cheever[J].海外英语,2011(11):273-274. |
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| 作者姓名： | 代玉萍 |
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| 作者单位： | 山东圣翰财贸职业学院外国语学院 |
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| 摘 要： | The short story "The Swimmer" is representative of John Cheever’s suburban stories,which shows the vivid pictures of middle class people’s "happy life" mode.The question is that is such a "happy life" really happy.After analyzing the protagonist Neddy Merril’s Odyssean journey,the author concludes that so-called a "happy life" is no more than an illusion.
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| 关 键 词： | John Cheever Neddy Merril happy life illusion |
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