E. B. Wight's central message of his essay, "Once More to the Lake" is how over the course of his vacation he was able to realize that while individual experiences at the lake had changed, the overall experience was the same, allowing him to finally connect with his son. Within the essay, E. B. Wight's character has a sudden desire to reinitiate a childhood tradition, what was once an annual trip to a Maine Lake, with his son who has had no such experience before. It is clear that Wight has found memories of the lake, "You remember one thing, and that suddenly reminds you of another thing. I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen,"(1) and clearly wants his son to have an identical situation, "I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his nose and who had seen lily pads only from train windows."…