The Bass The River Sheila Mant Summary

Throughout the short story “Sheila Mant,” the boy must decide between the bass and Sheila. First off, the boy might pick the bass. One reason why he might pick the bass is because it is the biggest bass he has ever hooked. As it says in the text, “One, that it was a bass. Two, it was a big bass. Three, that it was the biggest bass I had ever hooked” (Wetherell 3). The boy had never hooked a bass this big in his life and is afraid it is his only chance. If the boy picks the bass, then he could have a trophy of a lifetime. The second reason the boy might pick the bass is that he has a history with fishing. As the story states, “Yeah, bass. They come into the shallows at night to chase frogs and moths and things. Big largemouths. Micropterus salmoides, I added, showing off”

Love,it can make you do things you never thought you would do and it attaches strings that sometimes can’t ever be broken.Both “The Bass the River and Sheila Mant”and “Annabel Lee” discuss love and how much of a strong pull it can have on you and your life choices.

The fish was bending the rod so it must be big and fat. It is also probably the biggest fish he ever caught. The story states the fish is the biggest he had ever seen. The fish is probably hooked well and won’t come off. He dragged it through a bunch of rocks and weeds so it would probably be easy to catch. The fish fights hard so it would be fun to catch. The fish is putting up a good fight with the pole and it would be fun for the narrator to catch. Another reason he might choose the fish is there are other girls. A few girls live around him other that Sheila. There are other girls around him that he could go out with other than Sheila. Sheila doesn’t like one of his biggest passions. Sheila doesn’t like fishing and he loves fishing so there might be another incident like this. There will be more available girls in the future. In the future there might be more girls that for sure like him back. In summary, the narrator can choose either the fish or Sheila

In the short story “The Bass, The river and Sheila Mant,” one of the main characters is portrayed as self centered due to her inability to pick up on how the narrator feels about her. In the story Sheila is very open with what she would like to do rather than having any interests in the narrator. Sheila explains to the narrator “I went to a party there. These fraternity men Katherine says could get in there if I wanted. I'm thinking more of UVM or Bennington. Somewhere I can ski.” Sheila continues to be characterized as very self centered because she is perceived as only interested in herself and appears to lack interest in what the narrator would like to do. Sheila continues to be depicted as self centered because she complains about how

I am reading “The bass the River and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell and I am on page six. This book is about (write 3 – 4 sentences of the plot) The is this boy who is madly in love with this girl named Sheila Mant. This boy loves to bass fish. He is upset because the girl that he loves despises bass fishing. Then the biggest bass he has ever caught is in his line. Now he needs to decide between Sheila Mant and the fish. In this paper, I will be Predicting and connecting.

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 short story by W. D. Wetherell The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant was entirely and completely unrealistic. First of all, the only two characters in the story are unrealistic. This kid sounds like he’s done nothing but fish and swim in a muddy disgusting river his whole life. And speaking of his life, it seems to revolve around fishing and some girl he’s never spoken to. Creepy? Yeah. Realistic? Ehhh.. maybe. Let’s face it, most boys his age, especially ones in small Southern towns as it appears he is from, tend to have very few hobbies, two of which being idolizing girls too old for them, and something involving hurting or killing animals (fishing, hunting, etc). So that is realistic. However, the problem arises in his intense passion for those

In the story The Bass the River and Sheila Mant, W.D. Wetherell portrays our narrator as a very dynamic and round character.. The narrator is definitely dynamic because their priorities have changed throughout the story. The narrator says, “There would be other Sheila Mants in my life…” (Wetherell 4) which shows them realizing that Sheila Mant was no longer as important to them as themself. The narrator is also static based on the following traits. They care very much about appearances based on how they continuously try to impress Sheila, as well as the fact that they, “would have given anything to appear dumb in Sheila’s severe and unforgiving eyes.” (3, L10-11). This demonstrates that the narrator cares about how they appear to others; including

Poetry, more than any other writing style, is filled to the brim with literary devices. These devices are used by the author to communicate their story. Mary Oliver’s, “Crossing the Swamp,” is a tale of one person’s struggles in crossing a swamp. Mary uses the techniques of descriptive language, metaphors, and personification to develop the relationship between the speaker and the swamp.

The young narrator in the story is overcome by a pull between Sheila Mant, the beautiful girl on vacation, and his love of fishing. While on a boat ride to his first party, the narrator tries to impress Sheila by acting like someone else. During the ride, a huge bass is pulling on the boy’s fishing line, but Sheila thinks that fishing is dumb, so the boy does not want her to know. He is in a tugging war between who he is, and who Sheila thinks he is. At the end of the story the narrator proves to have learned a lesson because he says, “There would be other Shiela Mants in my life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secrets, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made that mistake again” (Wetherell 40). By him saying he never made the same mistake again, he means that he never again made the error of acting like a different person to impress someone. The narrator realizes that he neither got the girl nor the fish because he was too busy trying to look cool in Sheila’s eyes. Like Shakespeare implies, never let who you are be placed below someone else’s thought of you. If he had been himself, the young narrator may have been successful in getting either his true love, or the biggest fish of his life. When a person takes his or her mask off, they realize that being who they are will always surpass the criticism of

In The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant, Wetherell characterizes Sheila Mant as an inconsiderate, uncommitted, careless teenager. Firstly, Wetherell characterizes Sheila Mant as an inconsiderate, uncommitted, careless teenager by telling the reader about her mood swings and the many guys she gets to fall for her. The narrator had noticed the many different moods of Sheila Mant. Most of the time her moods told others to stay away from her. And when she was in a slightly better mood than usual, multiple guys would come after her :“It was only in those glorious moments that her various suitors found the courage to come near her”(1). By saying “various suitors”, it shows that many guys that are different from one another try to get with Sheila.

Throughout the short story “Sheila Mant” the boy must decide between the bass and Sheila. First off, the boy may pick the bass because he brought his fishing pole with on his first date. He would not have brought his fishing pole on his date if he did not want to use it. His fishing pole is like his cellphone, he cannot go anywhere without it because he will be thinking about it the whole time. The fishing pole comforts the boy because he knows that if he sees a bass he has an opportunity to catch it. Another reason he might pick the bass is that he knows more about the bass than Sheila. He knows what the bass eats, where the bass go during the night, and how it sounds. He has gathered this knowledge from all the years he has been fishing, is he willing to give the biggest bass he

He feels too insecure to tell her about liking to fish because he thinks she will not like him if she knows that, so he just does not tell her and pretends to be someone he is not. Another example of insecurity is when the narrator finally asks Sheila Mant out on a date. “ It was late August by the time I got up the nerve to ask her out. The tortured what will-I’s, won’t-I’s the agonizing indecision over what to say, the false starts towards her house and embarrassed retreats” (Wetherell 1). The narrator is very nervous to ask Sheila out on a date and does not think he is good enough for her.

“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

The short story “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod is narrated by a man who comes from a fishing family. His mother’s side of the family has forever lived and worked by the sea and continues this tradition. The narrator’s father always wanted to be an academic, but worked on the boat to support his family. Through this passage it is evident that the parents’ characters clash in many aspects of their lives and are in constant conflict. MacLeod demonstrates this through the use of repetition, the contrast in other unrelated ideas, and through information that is withheld.