The Mclean Family In The River Runs Through

The River Runs Through is a story about the Mclean family from Missoula, Montana. This story leaves the reader feeling with mixed emotions. During this story there is a lot of emotions in it like happiness, love, sadness, and also an addiction. The River Runs Through is a story about a family who were very close to each other, but have a son/brother whose life was taken away from doing something that he loved which was drinking and gambling. In the end of the story Paul still found a way to find happiness which was fly fishing, especially when his brother Norman back from Chicago. Paul’s brother, Norman, was the other brother of the two who Paul ended up teaching to fly fish and Norman became a better fly fisher then Paul was. They both always ended up finding happiness from fly fishing with their father.
At the beginning of the story it starts out with the narrator Norman Mclean. He stated that it was like growing up in Missoula, Montana. He was the son of Scottish Presbyterian minister who holds two things close to him with the family, which is fly fishing and God. Norman has a younger brother named Paul; they spent most of their time when not being in school or church services you’d find them fly fishing. Their father introduces them to the art of fly fishing in which one must learn to read the river and to attempt to listen to its so …show more content…
I liked that it was about a family that went through obstacles during their life. Their father was a stern minister who believed that God came first. One of the obstacles that the family had to deal with was the death of their loved one Paul. When Paul died it changed their lives in many different ways. I like how they mentioned Paul liking to drink and also gamble. This is what more than likely took his life, because from gambling he owed a man money and he didn’t have the money and this is when he got beat with the butt of the gun and it lead him to