The Bass Symbolism

The short story The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant has an important theme proving to stay true to yourself using symbolism. The fish symbolized his true self`because it was the “hidden tuggings in the night that claimed” him. It wasn't that he lost Sheila Mant that made him regret that night but instead the fact that he let someone else’s opinion hold him back from something great. Catching the fish would have given him more happiness than something that would last one night.
The narrator also uses imagery to emphasize how nature and fishing makes him happy. It was a “solitude”, a “corridor of hidden life that ran between the banks like a tunnel”(Weatheral 2). He describes how the river makes him feel. It makes him feel at peace at the