“The Swim Team”: My Way of Coping
The story in which the narrator of Miranda July’s “The Swim Team” thinks of when her ex-boyfriend breaks up with her, really shows off the devastation people go through when something unpleasant happens to them. As you read The Swim Team, you can automatically tell the story was either something the narrator made up on the spot or dreamt of. This was her way of coping with the break up. The narrator wanted to make it seem like the ex-boyfriend is missing out on a lot since he broke up with her. July was able to show that the story was not true by giving up some details within story: like