The short story, “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, is a story written by W.D. Wetherell about a boy having a crush on the girl next door. The young narrator finally takes the action to ask her to a concert at the carnival. He plans to take her by canoe, since he cannot drive. Sheila does not like fish and he accidently catches one and has to decide to let the bass go or to reel it in. The narrator’s actions in this story, such as the narrator asking her out, advance the plot by establishing conflict. When the narrator is polishing and making the canoe presentable he automatically puts his fishing reel on the stern without thought. “Automatically, without thinking about it, I mounted my Mitchell reel on my Pfleuger spinning rod and stuck
