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Discussion starters:
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In what ways might a reader of the times find
this story objectionable, or typical of the day (published just days before
the Great Crash)?
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What importance do you place on Choupette's
nationality?
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Roulston says the story contains "a
flood of images" where water, specifically sea-waves "become
alternately symbols of oblivion and renewal" (151). In what ways
do you see this happening?
- What other symbols do you sense underlying
this story?
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Critical Sources:
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Friedman, Melvin J. "'The
Swimmers': Paris and Virginia Reconciled." The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in
Criticism. Ed. Jackson R. Bryer. Madison: U of Wisconsin P,
1982. 251-60.
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Kuehl, John. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Study
of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1991.
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Roulston, Robert. "'The Swimmers':
Strokes Against the Current." New Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's
Neglected Stories. Ed. Jackson R. Bryer. Columbia: U of
Missouri P, 1996. 151-64.
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