The Role Of The Narrator In Sheila's Love

“The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant,” by Wetherell the unnamed narrator decides to ask the gorgeous Sheila out on a date only to find that she dislikes fishing which is the narrator's favorite

The realization comes later after he has accidentally hooked the biggest fish he has ever hooked. By reeling in the bass, he would be losing Sheila, but cutting it loose would make him lose the catch of his life. When the narrator finally knows a decision must be made between the bass and Sheila, he chooses Sheila believing it is a more mature thing to do. When he “pull[s] a penknife . . . and cut[s] the line,” (7) he makes a conscious decision that Sheila Mant is to be more important than his fishing. When the night is over, and Sheila goes off in a different guy’s Corvette, the narrator comes to the realization that she was not worth giving up the fish. Later in life, after being with other girls and catching other fish, what “haunts [him] still” is losing the bass, not Sheila Mant. Ultimately, the narrator’s maturity came from finding out what he actually loved the most and sticking to that.

There are many people that are mean, selfish, and kill for money. In “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, Sheila Mant is one of the mean and selfish people. In this story, Sheila exhibits laziness, not caring about anybody but herself, and using people. All of these characteristics are exhibited through indirect characterization. That shows, better than direct characterization, what type of person Sheila Mant is.

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.

For example, each family member goes into Susie’s old room alone to grieve her death .They finally seem to realize that they need each other to get through this terrible time and accept that even though they will never have Susie back but can hope and try together to figure out what happened to Susie and who did it. Throughout the book they must learn to love each other again.The theme of grief is the most important theme in the novel. The Salmon family must learn to overcome the loss of Susie. Everyone grieves in their own way and finds a way to blame themselves or feel like its their own fault that the situation happened. Susie's family feels a sense of guilt for not being there for her. For example, Susie's father, Jack grieves for Susie.He feels like he wasn't there when his daughter needed him most which leads him to becomes obsessed with feeling responsible for finding the killer. Lindsey, Susie’s sister grieves over her sister by becoming a stronger person and not to talking about it. Susie’s also mourns her own death and the missed opportunity of getting to grow up, but more significantly, Susie grieves over the loss of living people. This theme allows us to understand the characters better.

When they are in the canoe together going to Dixford to watch a band the narrator finds something out that will challenge him in the future. “I think fishing’s dumb.” she said, making a face” (McDougal 29). After finding out that information something ironic happens, he catches a bass. “One, that it was a bass. Two, that it was a big bass. Three, that it was the biggest bass I had ever hooked. Four, that Sheila Mant must not know” (McDougal 30). Knowing that he has a bass on the line, the boy had to make a decision. He ends up choosing Sheila Mant, which he later regrets after she gets a ride home with another

I am reading “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”by W.D. Wetherell, and I am on page five. This book is about This short story is about a boy who has a crush on a girl who is way out of his league named Sheila Mant. He asks her on a date and she accepts. While on their date, he hooks the biggest bass of his life, he lets go before he docks. Sheila Mant leaves him for another boy. In this paper I will be questioning whether the narrator chooses the girl or the fish.

The tortured will-I’s, won’t-I’s, the agonized indecision over what to say, the false starts toward her house and embarrassed retreats.” This indicates the first of many tough decisions to be made by him. He is very nervous at first but finally decides to do it. He is using details of the characters emotions and thoughts as well to show the decision which lied ahead. The next time he has to make a quick thinking decision is when he is with Sheila on the boat. She doesn't like fishing and he is a big time fisherman so he has to decide what to do with his fishing gear to not embarrass himself. “What I should have done, of course, was push the canoe in closer to shore and carefully slide the rod into some branches where I could pick it up again in the morning. Failing that, I could have surreptitiously dumped the whole outfit overboard, written off the forty or so dollars as love’s tribute.” He decided to stick with the safe route and keep the fishing stuff in the boat and hide it. Which in the end was probably a wise decision the other being possibly dumping his date into the water and his pride going with it. The third and final quote is Dealing with probably the biggest decision of his night. While canoeing to their final destination the line all of a sudden goes tight and he

The narrator’s affection for a girl named Sheila Mant in Wetherell’s short story and her actions foreshadows what later happens. On the way to the concert, there was largemouth bass flipping around in the water, and Shelia made a face and said, “I think fishing is dumb. I mean, it’s boring and all. Definitely dumb” (Wetherell 33). The narrator is passionate about fishing, and he finds out the girl he has an enormous crush on did not have the similar enthusiasm for fishing as he does. He finally had the courage to ask out the girl he adores and finding this out foreshadows the situation is not

He doesn't want her to figure out he loves fishing, “ She hadn't seen my equipment yet. What i should've done, of course, was push the canoe in closer to shore and carefully slide the rod into some branches where i could pick it up later in the morning”(pg.3 Weatheral). He doesn't want her to see his equipment because she doesn't like fishing and is trying to do everything possible to impress her, even if that means pretending to be someone else. He made a mistake by choosing a girl over his passion, “i pulled a penknife from my pocket and cut the line in half. With a sick, nauseous feeling in my stomach, i saw the rod unbend”(pg.5 Weatheral). The main character chose a girl over his passion which is fishing, and now has that sickening feeling of guilt and regret he feels in his chest that he can not escape. He doesn't deny he made a mistake, he says he will never make the same mistakes again. The theme of this story is to always be yourself and to not act any differently around anyone else you're trying to impress, as it just hurts you in the end and creates more endless pain

The author gave up his love of fishing one time for a girl he love. He was shy but, one day he had the courage to ask out Sheila Mant the girl he had a crush on. The author ask out sheila Mant but she didn't even look up and ask did he had a car (Wetherell 51). That show that Sheila Mant doesn't really care about the author. While they was on their date, they was talking and sheila Mant, "said she doesn't like fishing because it boring" ,but the author

Wetherell’s short story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” his first step toward self-awareness goes in a different direction than Gene’s. He is first confronted by an inner conflict that is spawned when he is given an ultimatum of choosing between his beloved hobby, fishing, and his crush, Sheila Mant. He describes the dilemma as feeling that he “would be torn apart between longings, split in half” (Wetherell 25), and even after he cuts the line and chooses Sheila over the bass he feels “a sick, nauseous feeling in [his] stomach” (25) because of it. Though he ultimately decides to pursue Sheila in the moment, it is clear that the bass makes a much more profound impact on him, since he clearly states that “Before the month was over, the spell she cast over [him] was gone, but the memory of that lost bass haunted [him] all summer and haunts [him] still.” (26) He continues to an even more important insight that “There would be other Sheila Mants in [his] life, other fish” (26) and explains that he has never made that mistake again and surely never will. Dissimilarly to Gene, it is not negative feelings that the boy recognizes to be toward Sheila, but simply that his love for fishing is where his passion truly

Sheila is portrayed as a beautiful young lady in her early twenties with a rather selfish and arrogant nature. Using her compelling personality she is able to obtain anything in which she desires through her father. She makes inconsequential remarks and speaks in a childish manner. However she is the only one to accept immediate responsibility for her role in Eva Smith’s death, making her most probably the furthermost sympathetic character throughout the play. She is horrified by her own part in Eva's death; she feels full of guilt for her jealous actions and blames herself and she is genuinely remorseful for her actions. She is very perceptive towards the inspector, first to wonder who he really is, realising he already knows much of what

When Sheila and the boy were on their way to the band in Dixford, the boy forgot that he put his fishing pole in the water when he was waiting for Sheila. He saw that he caught a bass, a huge bass in fact. He had found out that Sheila does not like fishing, “I think fishing’s dumb” (Mcdougal 29). So the boy had to pick between the two, and he picked the girl. He cut the line and let the bass go (Mcdougal 30).

A narrative voice is the heart of a story, it is the one that determines many important things about what is happening and can even have the potential to convert the reader in protagonists of the story. In this story “A Rose for Emily “ by William Faulkner the narrative voice is causing confusion on the reader because have many voices distilled into one . Many times, it seems that he/she knows everything that is happening and that he was very close to the protagonist Emily and at other times seems a complete stranger. It is not easy for the reader to determine the gender of the narrator, and even to imagine it is extremely complex. Faulkner develop in this story is genre Gothic Fiction, whit this unexpected narrator and whit