One night in the short story “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” written by W.D. Wetherell, the narrator realized that doing what he loves and being who he truly is comes before any significant person in his life. The narrator was obsessed with both Sheila Mant and fishing so if he wasn’t thinking about one it would be the other. On the way down to their date, the narrator found out that Sheila Mant thought fishing was stupid and boring while he could not live without it. During the story, the narrator decided to let down a fishing line while Sheila was not paying attention and this is where he started to face a dilemma. He realized that “Sheila began talking about something else, but all my attention was taken up now with the fish” (Wetherell
Gianna Spinelli Ms. Friese English 14 February 2024. “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell In “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, by W. D. Wetherell tells us about this narrator who has a big crush on this girl at his summer house. Sheila is older, and the narrator is just a kid that likes to fish. The narrator and the girl, Sheila Mant, play ball together, and that's where the narrator asks her out.
Imagery of the bass, the river, and Sheila Mant One of the main themes of this story is that sacrifice. The narrator of this story is not given a name but he is fourteen year old. The narrator has a major crush on a women- seventeen year old, Sheila Mant. The narrator finally, and I say finally, asks Sheila on a date via the narrator’s boat.
As they were reaching the point where they would get off the boy was hoping the big bass would get lose, but it wouldn’t, so he finally decided and cut the rod string with his pocket knife and let the bass lose. He boy sacrificed the big bass for the girl. This was the biggest bass the boy has ever seen and he just let is lose, because the he knew that this girl was like no other. The story ends in the fact the girl after the date let with someone else. The main character’s choice highly contributes to the theme of the story.
First, I will outline why he might choose Sheila Mant over his passion for fishing. One reason is because he loves her. He loves her aura of sophistication and beauty. As he states, “to me she appeared unutterably suave, the epitome of sophistication.” He has also put a significant time investment into impressing her.
When a person sees another person suffering it may cause them pain. This constitutes their powerful system of empathy, which hints their thinking that they should do something to relieve the suffering of others. If they cannot help another, or fail in his/her efforts they might experience feelings of guilt. Humans make mistakes and many of them go down a path in their lives that can make them feel guilty later on when they finally recognize their mistake. This is evident in Paul D’Angelo’s self-narrative short story The Step Not Taken, when he the protagonist fails to help a man labeled as “typical junior executive” (D’Angelo) which leads to an epiphany of guilt and shows his true identity.
In the short story,The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant, author W.D Weatheral uses the literary device of metaphor to develop the story's theme of not changing oneself to get someone to like you. In the story, after he doesn't end up with sheila,the narrator claims that other people like Sheila would come in his life,”other fish,”(W.D Weatheral pg. 6). The narrator in this quote learns that if sheila didn't like him for who he is, then he shouldn’t have got with her. He understood that other people, fish as he refers. like Sheila would come into is like, perhaps one of them would like hi m for who he is.
This is a hefty problem for the boy. The narrator absolutely loves to fish. In fact, during their date he has a pole casted into the water. After hearing this, the boy was determined not give Sheila any knowledge of his favorite hobby. Though, the narrator neglected to discreetly reel in the line.
He might choose the girl for several reasons, first off she is pretty he describes her as percect for him. also he loves her. He watches her through the bushes, and knows all of her moods. he knows what mood she is in depending on what position she is in, but the bass was also another option, He might have chosen the bass because it was the biggest bass hes ever seen. It pulled the boat and bent the rod twice as much.
Looking to earn extra money, Michael had heard about a literary contest for the Nelson Algren Prize, and had encouraged Louise to submit a story. Louise agreed, sitting down to write a story worthy of the contest, The World’s Greatest Fisherman. Louise entered the story into the contest, earning her one of the two prizes. The story became one of the stories in what would become Love medicine. The story is about June Kashpaw, a Chippewa women who mysteriously dies the night before Easter.
As people make their way through life, they often find themselves for the first time at a moment where they must make a choice. They must choose between whether to stay, or to go. It is the first independent choice between what is familiar and the possibility of something greater. It is at this precise moment in time where Sammy finds himself while working in an A & P grocery store. It is only when Sammy is unexpectedly forced to contemplate his current predicament, does he decides to make his first life altering decision.
Is Scout a Reliable Narrator? In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the protagonist, who happens to be the narrator, is Scout Finch a six-year old girl who lives in Maycomb, Alabama. Since Scout is a very young child the book contains many hyperboles, or a literary device in which an author uses specific words or phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect. So is this a detriment or an asset to the book?
He confronts internal conflict in the story when he mounts the rod in the boat. The narrator is getting ready for his date with Sheila in the middle of the story, when he “mounted his Mitchell reel on his(made changes to quote) Pflueger spinning reel rod and stuck it in the stern”.(Wetherell 2) The narrator crosses paths with internal conflict as he puts the rod in the boat, allowing for the possibility of getting the bass on his line and causing conflict with Sheila's dislike for fishing. Along with his love of fishing. The narrator also encounters internal conflict when Sheila brings up Eric Caswell.
Guilt has the potential to crumble even the most powerful of mortals. The Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth reveals the consequence of immoral action: guilt. William Shakespeare portrays the idea that the downfall of one may transpire as a result of this regret. Throughout the play, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are negatively affected as they are overwhelmed by the realization that they have violated their moral standards; this causes their guilt. The two attempt to conceal the remorse they experience, but despite this, their misdeeds take their toll.
In the play Macbeth there was a lot of stuff that went on that could keep the reader interested. One of these things are all of the murders in the play. With all these murders happening, there has to be someone to blame. In the play Lady Macbeth is to blame for the murders because she called evil upon herself, influenced Macbeth to be a murder, and she wanted power.
