Summary Of Once More To The Lake By George White

In the short story “Once More to the Lake”, White describes the lake as “fade-proof” and the woods as “unshatterable” because he wants to describe how they have endured through time. When he came to visit the lake, it brought back many memories and felt like nothing has changed. In the story, he describes himself as a “salt water” man because he is not the same person as when he was younger. So he thought that if he came back to his childhood vacation after so many years that the lake would be marred. To his surprise, everything remained exactly as how he remembered when he was a child. He quotes, “It was the arrival of this fly that convinced me beyond any doubt that everything was as it always had been, that the years were a mirage and that