In “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, the narrator faces the conflict of choosing Sheila Mant or a big bass. The action he made affects him afterwards making him feel guilty and discouraged. If he had caught the big bass, he would have a great story to tell on how he caught it but he did the exact opposite which is letting the bass go. When the concert was over at the end of the story, Sheila Mant really looked at the narrator letting him know that he is a funny kid. The narrator still has in mind the fact that he let the bass go and he was sad about it; “Before the month was over, the spell she cast over me was gone, but the memory of that lost bass haunted me all summer and haunts me still” (Wetherell 14). His summer was sad and depressing knowing that he let go of something that he is passionate about other than Sheila Mant; the bass. When he says “the spell she cast over me”, he refers to how he did all these things to impress her and all for nothing because he only danced with her once or twice at the concert. This feeling of guilt and the memory of letting the bass go will always be present in his
In “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, the narrator faces the conflict of choosing Sheila Mant or a big bass. The action he made affects him afterwards making him feel guilty and discouraged. If he had caught the big bass, he would have a great story to tell on how he caught it but he did the exact opposite which is letting the bass go. When the concert was over at the end of the story, Sheila Mant really looked at the narrator letting him know that he is a funny kid. The narrator still has in mind the fact that he let the bass go and he was sad about it; “Before the month was over, the spell she cast over me was gone, but the memory of that lost bass haunted me all summer and haunts me still” (Wetherell 14). His summer was sad and depressing knowing that he let go of something that he is passionate about other than Sheila Mant; the bass. When he says “the spell she cast over me”, he refers to how he did all these things to impress her and all for nothing because he only danced with her once or twice at the concert. This feeling of guilt and the memory of letting the bass go will always be present in his