empty, abandoned structure (Cheever, 788).
Firstly, the “Hero’s Journey” explains the subsequent processes found in most stories, regarded as the monomyth. Vogler asserts that a Hero’s journey is sequential and starts with a point of separation, followed by initiation and lastly, the return. Amid these three major steps are more other steps that culminate to the end of the journey. Cheever’s work is a perfect example of the Hero’s journey, albeit the protagonist, the hero in “The Swimmer” returned…
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