Once More To The Lake E. B White Analysis

E.B. White wrote the article “Once More to the Lake”in which it shows his internal struggle between acting and viewing the lake as he did when he was a boy and acting and viewing it as an adult.
White sees the lake identical to the lake of when he was a child, but he could not help but feel emptiness knowing it wasn't the same experience. E.B White compares the time he went fishing with his dad and how he's fishing now with his son. He then realizes how death is so close, for he is now the father and not the son. The author realizes that human lives experiences are immortal. In spite of the increasing amounts of technology, his son still has the same experiences that he had when he was a boy for example: sneaking out in the morning, being