In the short story, “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, written by W.D Wetherell, there's a young 14 year old boy who goes unnamed throughout the whole story and lives in an old cabin with his family on the edge of the river. The unnamed boy gets a new neighbor and starts developing a crush on them. This girl went by Sheila Mants, and he was bound to impress her. Overall, he’s a flat character. He’s one of the main characters in this story and not much happens in detail with him.
In the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” a boy takes a girl named Sheila Mant on a date and has to make a difficult decision. That difficult decision is his dream girl or a huge fish that he might never get the chance to catch again. This is a hard choice to make because he loves fishing, but Sheila on the other hand does not. He could pick Sheila because he loves her very much. For the past couple of summers he has been admiring and watching her.
In the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,” W.D. Wetherell uses indirect characterization to create a lazy, rude, selfish, and basic girl named Sheila Mant. An example from the text is, “There was an extra paddle in the bow, but Sheila made no move to pick it up. She took her shoes off and started dangling her feet over the sides. ”(Pg. 17).
W.D. Wetherell, the narrator in and author of the short story, “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant,” is a very passionate person; throughout the story he clearly expresses his passion for fishing, as in it he goes out fishing all the time, and it is obvious it means a lot to him, because as he explains, “I never went anywhere that summer without a fishing rod. When I wasn’t swimming laps... I was back in our driveway practicing casts...when I wasn’t doing any of those... I was fishing the river for bass.” (37).
How would you feel if you took someone on a date and they left with someone else? In this short story, this is exactly what Sheila Mant does to the narrator in the story “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell. Based off indirect characterization and how Sheila doesn’t look at him when talking, and she compliments herself, she is not too nice of a person. Sheila is rude to the narrator, In the story “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, the narrator takes Sheila out on a date and she leaves him for someone else.
In the short story ‘The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant’, the character Sheila has proven herself to be rude, narcissistic, and self absorbed. On the very first page of the story, the narrator visits Sheila while she is playing a game of softball with her family. Sheila “didn’t seem to see [him] at all,” even though he is right in front of her (The Bass). This just goes to show that she couldn’t care less about anyone but herself, since she wouldn’t pay even an ounce of attention to someone trying to talk to her. Further, when Sheila and the narrator were in the canoe together, she candorly states “I think
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Compare and contrast Anne’s relationship with her mother to that with her father. (Double Bubble Map) Started Monday, January 9th Anne respects and appreciates her father more. And also, she always criticises whatever her mother does. But later in the story Anne respects her mother more. Also Anne appreciates what her mother does for her and the sacrifices she made.
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