In a story mostly set in these places, the protagonist sees a man’s abdomen surgery scars and wonders what it’s like to feel that one no longer has a navel. In a different story, a diary entry presumed to be about a death in one of these places reads in part, “It will either happen today or […] when I am sixteen. It is ridiculous to mention even.” In between time spent in these places, the protagonist of a story shelters from a storm in a gazebo that was filled with Japanese lanterns by Mrs. Levy. Booper is implied to have killed her brother by pushing him into one of these places at the end of J. D. Salinger’s story “Teddy.” In a story, years pass without the protagonist realizing, as he moves through a series of these places belonging to his neighbors. For 10 points, Neddy Merrill passes through what places in a John Cheever story? ■END■
ANSWER: swimming pools [prompt on cruise ship by asking “Which part of the ship?”; prompt on suburbs, suburban homes, suburban houses, or backyards by asking “Which specific locations in those homes?”]
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