It seems as your question really is the purpose of the
author. Cheever often wrote his stories without time reference in order to make it
"universal". It is a question of allegory wether or not Neddy is undertaking his
advandture within one day or one year or even a dacade.
If
you consider the time frame "The Swimmer" was written in, you certainly have the 1960's
and even the late 1950's, when suburbs grew and many Americans were frightened by the
Cold War that could have led to an atomic war and thus destruction of all major cities
of the US and most certainly the Soviet Union.
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