The Bass And Sheila Mant Summary

In our journey of life, we always experience the process from adolescent to adulthood, and through the growth stage to being the mature man by undergo with self-reflection and self-discovery. In the story “The Bass, The River, And Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell demonstrates a young teeneger boy who is determined abandon to catch a bass in order to impress a girl. And shows how the boy from naive transit to mature, finally he is conscious of being himself and not live for others. Throughout the story, the character moves forward through a series of conflict to show that his thought is changing and later he comes to a realization. By telling the story, the narrator indicates that being true to yourself rather than giving into momentary infatuation …show more content…
He falls in love with Sheila and tries to impress her, so that the scale of his heart already tend to choose Sheila. In fact, the boy has a big desire to catch the bass, but he sacrifices it in order to go on a date, “ One, that is was a bass. Two, that is was big bass. Three, that is was the biggest bass I had ever hooked.” This highlight that the bass is rare that it is valued for the boy in his life, ironically, he give up that important opportunity just for a girl who think fishing is a boring and stupid thing. Eventually, “I reached down for the rod, hesitated, looked up to where Sheila was stretching herself lazily toward the sky, her small breasts rising beneath the soft fabric of her dress, and the tug was too much for me, and quicker than it takes to write down, I pulled a penknife from my pocket and cut the line in half.” Even though the boy loves fishing and desire to catch the bass, he still choose to cut a fishing line which mean for him Sheila is over the bass. “Twenty yards ahead of us was the road, and once I pulled the canoe up on shore, the bass would