“One Last Swirl Around the Fish Bowl by Dan Barry” (April 3, 2009) is an essay written about the similarities between a fish dying to the death of your loved ones. It starts off about how he lets his daughters purchase a fish, over time the fish starts to slowly grow weaker and weaker to the point of preparing its fish funeral. The father then starts to reminisce about how much the fish began to grow on him, until its sad death, comparing and remembering how similar the fish and his sick father began to act towards the end of their life’s. From barely eating to hardly moving the author describes how the idea of a boring fish and a young 5-year-old girl creating this bond as that of a love story. I feel most people including myself can say
