Summary Of The Fish Story By Rick Bass

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Do you ever wonder how much times have changed? How everyone seems to be too busy in their day-to-day activities. They don’t seem to have time for much else? In Rick Bass’s “The Fish Story”, the evaluation of the character’s thoughts demonstrates how the narrator of the story covets the good ole days when he was a young boy and questions himself wondering why everything has changed now and simplicity seems to be gone now that he is an adult.
On page 2 of the story, the narrator mentions, “Do you ever think that those days were different—that we had more time for such thoughts, that time had not yet been corrupted?” (Bass, 2009, p. 2). The character is thinking back to the days when he was 10-years-old. He explains life now seems to be hectic

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