In “Once More to the Lake,” E. B. White illustrates the gap between the present and the past through his vacations on a lake in Main as a child and as an adult. White recalls the moments with his father on this lake and sees that “there had been no years” (White 3) from the previous years and when he takes his son on the same trip. White’s memories of camping with his father from his childhood are filled with sensory details, and he links this father-son relationship with his current son, taking the position of the father. White senses that there had “been no passage of time; only the illusion of it as in a dropped curtain” (3). White stresses the unchanged details of the campsite between the years, describing that it was “strange how much
