 |  The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2, 10/e George Perkins,
Eastern Michigan University
Barbara Perkins,
University of Toledo-Toledo
Key ConceptsNeddy Merrill, Cheever's major character in "The Swimmer," illustrates the ironic or "anti-hero" in twentieth-century literature. Unlike Bartleby in Melville's tale, or Prufrock, in Eliot's modernist "Love Song," Neddy is a foolish character with pretension to the heroic; not so, his literary counterparts. To learn more about this and other key concepts, please consult the Glossary of Key Concepts. |
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