Not everyone enjoys being afraid, but there are a lot of us who really enjoy the experience. Fear is an emotional response, which triggers a change in the brain and organ function, as well as in behavior. Fear may occur when facing danger such as a threat or a confrontation. Fear can lead us to flee, hide, or fight. But sometimes fear can also be what drives us to cross our own boundary and do what we long to do.
The short story The Swimmer by S.J Butler deals with a woman whose fear for being watched by others, keeps her from doing what she wants. But her sudden desire for fear draws her closer and ends up making her do something even mere fearsome, which luckily turns out to help her be set free.
The story has an all-knowing third person narrative technique with focus on the protagonist and the setting around her. The short story starts by using the first five sentences to present the weather. “Three weeks of windless sun”.1 This establishes the overall setting for the reader. The setting is basically described as being a hot summer day, which has lasted for three weeks, with no cooling wind, and the suns heat burning on the ground. The cooling and moving water is in contrast to the clouds and the wind. ”Nothing moves except the water”. 2 There is a longer introduction to the water but it continuous from a different perspective. This leads to an introduction of both the water but also the main character. “She sits at her desk in the back room gazing out at the river. Where it rounds the first bend there's an eddy as the current twists out into the middle...”.3 J.S Butler is using sentences like the one above to set focus on the importance of the protagonist and the setting, and thereby indirectly telling the reader that the woman and the lake are of significance to the story.
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