Sheila Priestley 's `` Sheila Mant `` And The Boy Must Decide Between The Bass And Sheila

G: Throughout the short story “Sheila Mant,” the boy must decide between the bass and Sheila.

One night the narrator encounters a red-haired girl standing in the snow without any shoes on, in just a bathrobe. She is clearly distraught and claims that "He doesn't love anyone…his ex-wife, or the one before that…and he doesn't love me" (11). The narrator takes her to the dean's house and thinks that "she is beautiful and she was someone's red-haired daughter, standing in a quadrangle how many miles from home weeping" (10). The girl reminds the narrator of the daughter he once had. Evidence of this when the narrator thinks, "I thought of her as someone's child, which made me think of ours, of course" (21). He suspects that the girl is having an affair with his professor after noticing that she shows up at the professors office and the professor calls her his "advisee" with a sly grin. After witnessing this he calls in

“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,” by W. D. Wetherell, is an initiation story in which the symbols of fishing and Sheila Mant illustrate how the character of the narrator transforms from youth and innocence to sophistication and maturity. At age fourteen, it is typical for a boy such as the narrator to be beginning this transformation. Being innocent and naïve in a sense, the fourteen year old narrator gets an enormous crush on a seventeen year old girl named Sheila Mant and comes to believe she is what he loves most in life. For him, Sheila is a symbol of the maturity and sophistication he will eventually become a

Finally as a result, Sheila uses people just to get what she wants. Through the story, she uses the narrator just to go see a boy that she likes and leads the boy to think it’s a date. This is shown when Sheila tells the boy she will be going home with another boy. “She would be going home in Eric Caswell’s Corvette” (Wetherell 297). She used the boy to get to the concert and hang out with Eric Caswell.

for putting on airs and that if we've any sense we wont try", and "And

Everybody knows that feeling when you like a girl or a boy. You get nervous around them, can not think clearly around them. Both pieces of writing speak to this feeling. In the short story The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant the narrator states “ the only creature that seemed lovelier to me then a largemouth bass was sheila mant” (Wetherell 245). That statement shows us that she means alot to him because fishing was everything to him and he put her above it. The poem It’s Raining in Love, talks about these feeling as well. Richard Brautigan express this feeling when he says “ I don’t know what it is, but I distrust myself when I start to like a girl a lot” ( Brautigan 251). The short story and the poem have a very similar theme, they both

I am reading “ The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell. This story is about a boy who has a crush on a girl named Sheila Mant. He has asked her out on a date, and it doesn’t have the best start to it. In this journal I will be questioning and characterizing.

Before the inspector entered the birling household Sheila presented herself as the perfect fiancé to Gerald, despite knowing something happened during the summer she is still very reserved in what she says. With the inspector acting as a defence she begins to take on the role of the

Introduction: John’s domination over the Narrator is evident from the beginning of the short story. The Narrator remains unknown and takes the identity of John’s wife not an individual human being. This identity, further explored, becomes her personality because she obeys John’s every command.

The luxurious tone of Daisy’s voice snatches the attention of all who are nearby, urging them to listen to her siren-like cry. While at Nick’s house for tea, “ the exhilarating ripple of [Daisy’s] voice was a wild tonic in the rain” takes Nick on a journey, causing him to “follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with [his] ear alone, before any words came through” (85). Making Nick stop and listen to the bobbing rhythm of her voice, Daisy captures Nick’s ear and guides it on a riveting expedition. The voice leads Nick’s ear in a consistent pattern of up and down coercing him to listen to every beat. Daisy’s voice is unique in the sense that “it was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again” (9). With the use of a metaphor, Daisy’s voice becomes an arrangement of notes resembling a song, arranged in a specific lyrical pattern. Fresh in the mind of those

each other and stop.” (1.19) 1. To Claudia, the sound of a women’s voice is beautiful. I believe she enjoys listening to a women’s voice.

In the past, mischievous boy, now the man, could not find his place in life and continues to roll along from one scam to another. Now, he is being chased by mobsters from whom he stole the money, and he is in mortal danger from which he had taken refuge in his mother's house. Louie knows his mother the "iron women," but realizes that her foreign callousness is a heightened sense of duty and the result of the hard struggle for survival. At the same time, Uncle Louie is a kind and good-natured with his nephews and gives them that direct communication that they are lacking and all the inhabitants of the "cold house." The boys are supporting him too, even Jay at the risk of life helps him to get away from his pursuers. But Bella is more impressive. 36-year-old women with the immediacy of a little girl and with desires of an adult woman. The conflict between her and mother reveals generational conflict in this play. In this case, a harsh mother ruthless control of a daughter’s personality suppressed and deprived Bella’s opportunity to grow up. The scene of their explanations is written at a very high emotional level. This fragment produced a deep impression that gives a very high grade of the play. But the final look “natural,” in which Bella is belated, but “becomes free.”

In order for readers to be able to bloom their visual imagery from “Girl,” Kincaid uses repetition in two main ideas throughout the short story. The first idea she really wants to get across is singing benna, a type of music that centers on scandalous gossip. She writes, “is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?” This is toward the beginning of the story, and readers who do not recognize the word “benna” will be

Sheila’s language changes throughout the play. She starts off very simplistic and quite excitable, “Careful! I’ll never let it go out of my way”. But the changes and becomes more stern and quite sincere as a reflection of the Inspectors speech. At the beginning of the play she calls her mother, “mummy” but by the end of the play she calls her “mother” showing her maturity and how she has changed her language.

The narrative voice is intriguing when choosing a literacy technique when applied to Alice Munro 's “Boys and Girls” and Jamaica Kincaid 's “Girl” because it highlights the significance of women 's role during the 1960 's. The story of Boys and Girls is in third person narration describing an eleven- year old girl. This story was published in 1968, a time when the second wave of feminism movement occurred. This story gives information about adult gender roles. The setting of the story is in Canada during the winter. The narrator is living in a fox- breeding farm which correlates to the North American culture in the 1960 's. In the 1960 's, women were stereotyped as happy wives and mothers. In contrast, the society believed that unmarried