Rick Bass Fish Story Summary

I think the setting in Rick Bass’s story “Fish Story” is critical to the story’s development and plot because it represent the social class of characters in the story. This makes their characters more believable in that they belong to the blue-collar group where hard work is the norm while surviving paycheck to paycheck. Where aggressive behavior, heavy drinking, and roughneck attitudes prevail. The setting is Texas, in fact the middle of no-where Texas west of Fort Worth (Bass, 2009). This was the opposite of a wealthy suburb of a major metropolis. It’s a desolate setting, flat, and dusty at the main characters fathers fueling station (Bass, 2009). “You could see someone coming from a long way off” (Bass, 2009, para. 2). This is a classic