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. So in the end, he leaserns that he doesn't need to change himself in order to get others to like him. But that's not the only example of