- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
The swamp is a source of anxiety for Nick, but until this point in the story, it has been on the periphery. After he catches his fish and has his lunch, Nick finally looks the swamp head-on, and his anxiety about it peaks. The swamp looks impenetrable, with its low branches and close-growing trees. It makes Nick so uncomfortable that he wishes he had something to read, just so he could avoid looking at it. Nick imagines going into the swamp, and the sensory descriptions get unpleasant—“water deepening up under his armpits,” “fast deep water,” “half light”—as though the swamp…