Everyone can be addicted to something. Addiction is when a person takes a substance that may be pleasurable but leads to compulsion and interference in the person's ordinary life, relationships, and health. Once a person is addicted to something, there is no stopping them. There can be causes for the onset of an addiction. Depression is a major cause of addiction. When a person suffers from depression, they are at the lowest point in their life. Much like addiction, depression affects the way people live their lives. In John Cheever's "The Swimmer", Neddy Merrill becomes addicted to alcohol. To have a better social status than everyone else, his addiction makes him lose everything that is important to him. First of all, being depressed can cause people to drink. Neddy's need to drink was a measure of his social status: “He was not a practical man. he was neither a joker nor a fool, but he was decidedly original and had a vague and modest idea of ​​himself as a legendary figure. The day was beautiful and it seemed to him that a long swim might enlarge and celebrate its beauty” (Cheever 74). In every pool there are new and fresh drinks for him. Neddy's need for a drink strengthens throughout his journey, with swimming pools being his alcoholism. The alcoholism he consumes blinds him from real time and also shows his unhappiness. When Neddy's journey becomes more difficult due to the amount of alcohol he has consumed so far, this may explain the emotional state Neddy is in at the end of the story. Neddy can't go on a trip without his alcohol. This sounds a lot like Gemini 3 astronaut John W. Young, who brought a corned beef sandwich on board with the help of Walter Schirra. Food was seen more as a liability during this time of the space age. They were afraid that food crumbs could get stuck and clog important equipment and also affect astronauts if they breathe them in (O'Neil). Just as Neddy's alcoholism harmed him and his family, the sandwich John brought on board harmed the mission and his job. Neddy's alcoholism takes over the way he needs to drink every time he swims in a pool, just like astronaut John W. Young had to sneak on his sandwich on the spaceship. Both let their judgment about something cloud what is truly the right thing to do. Neddy's alcohol addiction clouded his judgment, and in the end he lost his friends and friends.