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Summary
Analytical Essay
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Uddrag
The short story “Neutral Buoyancy” (2014) by J. R. McConvey portrays the daily procedure of the woman Jetta Crisp, who swims to keep her fit and relapses at bay.
At the very beginning of the story the narrator Jetta waits for an open lane to start her daily sixty laps at 2:15 that she has done every day for the past three years.
Jetta values the pool greatly. It is her silent space where no one can stop the motion when Jetta gets in the Zone. As her body becomes one with the water, she suddenly loses her focus.
Dr. Grumblestein is in trouble. She must keep going or then she would not finish. Nevertheless, she saves him even though it ruins the routine that runs her life.
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The story uses a character-bound third-person narrator, who tells us the story entirely from Jetta’s point of view and gives us access to her thoughts and feelings: “Getoutgetoutgetout, she thinks.
She can feel her veins winching up inside her, making her whole body rigid, the perfunctory yoga not helping at all, her heart flapping under her rip cage like a panicked bird.” (ll. 26-28).
The effect of the limited narrator is to create identification and sympathy with the main character because we only witness the situation from her perspective.
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