Question

In this story, which begins in midsummer, the title character is disturbed to see Andromeda and Cassiopeia in the sky and smell “some stubborn autumnal fragrance on the night air.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this short story that ends as the protagonist cries upon discovering his house empty and his wife Lucinda gone.
ANSWER: “The Swimmer
[10e] John Cheever’s story “The Swimmer” first appeared in this magazine, which also published Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery.”
ANSWER: The New Yorker
[10h] The protagonist of Cheever’s story “The Country Husband” notes there is “not a trace of autumn” in his lust for a woman with this job. The title character either drowns or peacefully falls asleep in a self-contradictory 1982 story titled for this job.
ANSWER: babysitter (The other story is “The Babysitter” by Robert Coover.)
<CWRU A, American Literature>

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Claremont AUC Berkeley B1010020
UCLAClaremont B0000
UC Berkeley AUCSD1010020
UCF CFlorida A0000
Virginia Tech ALiberty A10101030
William & MaryLiberty B010010
Virginia ALiberty C1010020
Chicago BChicago C1010020
Chicago DMissouri010010
Illinois CIndiana B0000
Indiana AIllinois B1010020
Illinois AMissoui S&T1001020
WashU BChicago A010010
Iowa StateCarleton001010
Winona StateMinnesota B010010
Tufts ABrandeis A010010
Dartmouth AHarvard A010010
MIT AHarvard B1010020
Brown AUMass Boston010010
AlbertaUBC0000
UW AUW B010010
TAMUASU0000
Texas ATexas B1010020
Louisville AGeorgia Tech B010010
Georgia Tech CGeorgia Tech D1010020
Georgia Tech AVanderbilt A0000
Bruin ATennessee A1010020
BristolOxford C010010
Oxford ACambridge B1010020
Cambridge CManchester0000
LSECambridge D010010
Imperial ACambridge E0000
Warwick ADurham100010
Southampton ASheffield010010
Columbia BMaryland A0000
Cornell BHaverford A10101030
Maryland BGeorge Washington B010010
John Jay CollegeHaverford B010010
Penn APenn B010010
Rutgers AYale A010010
RIT ACornell D0000
NYU CCambridge A010010