Wetherell’s short story, “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” is written in the first person point of view through the eyes of a teenage boy, who is learning that it is not ok to pretend to be somebody that your are not. When the main character is on his first date, his summer love, Sheila Mant, says that fishing is dumb and, “...at that fragile moment in time [he] would have given anything not to appear dumb in Sheila’s severe and unforgiving eyes” (7). This shows that the main character is pretending that he doesn’t like fishing, when he actually does. This is the most important lesson in the story because once he decides to hide his love for fish, it backfires tremendously. Right after they leave for their date, the main characters catches,
