How are literary devices used throughout the story? Quebec nationalists, provincial premiers, and, more recently, feminists and aboriginal leaders have sought and sometimes won major victories as Canadians have attempted to transform their constitution and move from a commonwealth based in British law to an independent republic.But it is clear from the opening passages that there is another important setting for this story, namely the memory of the narrator.
When she tells Kersi two women were sunbathing in bikinis by the parking lot, he responds by saying “That’s nice.” When she tells him Bertha filled six big black garbage bags with autumn leaves in her frenzy of work that day, he responds with, “Six bags! He ruminates on water imagery and finally gets the nerve to go completely under the water, even though it is only in his bathtub.
Short Stories. His characters’ unfulfilled longings and failures to communicate would be merely depressing if he didn’t convey their optimism, energy, and ability to endure life’s blows with dignity.
Key Question: Would you ever move to a foreign country, in order to have a fresh start?
He seems somewhat senile, but the apartment tenants indulge him and he engages everyone equally. “I step back, and she advances, her breasts preceding her like the gallant prows of two ice-breakers.”Mistry discloses his view of symbolism in fiction early on in the story when his narrator muses aloud that “symbols, after all, should be still and gentle as dewdrops, tiny, yet shining with a world of meaning.” This is perhaps the best possible literary gloss on “Swimming Lessons,” since it comes from the author’s surrogate himself.
A counterpoint between the ongoing cycle of the seasons and the limited linear time of human life is made clear by that death. His lovingly detailed description of her partially exposed pubis around the edges of her bathing suit (probably what the critic of his sexist observations was referring to) reveals his dreamy disconnectedness to the actual scene he is in. ” At the beginning, Savukshaw’s story is seeming inspiring, for he is extremely talented at what he is doing and his achievements are the result of his hard work. Kersi has hesitated to remove their clothes, which have finished drying in the unit’s only two dryers, because he thinks it will offend them. There are some bigoted comments from white teenagers as he leaves the locker room. She even gives me the opening to satisfy the compulsion I have about explaining my non-swimming status.” For Kersi, swimming and water imagery are important themes in his life, and anticipating his first adult swimming lesson prompts him to revisit his attempts at swimming as a child in India. Historical Context. And the narrator makes no acquaintance or friend; the bikini women devolve from distant erotic visions to “horny old cows,” and the swimming lessons work out no better. After this there is a long passage of memory based on incidences of swimming, water, and religious festivals relating to water in the narrator’s life before immigrating to Canada. Wow!” The finale of these exchanges comes when she informs him that the old man’s son came to take him on a drive in his big beautiful American car. He is seen as he displays himself and also as his parents see him from halfway around the globe. “Nothing, not to worry about anything. The story opens and closes with the old man and its most significant event is his death. In general, she likes the stories set in Firozsha Baag more than the Torontothat builds to a climax, the narrator increasingly mocks her until she realizes she is being mocked. As he is submerging himself he decides he should find out the old man’s name.
She is a hard working middle-aged Yugoslavian woman who spends much of her time trying to get her husband and son to be hard working too.