The two narrators in the stories, “The Bass, the River and Sheila Mant” and “Lessons of Love” have many comparisons and contrasts with each others story. Some of the similarities that these two stories have are that they both want their crush to notice them. For example, in “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, the narrator tries to get Sheila (his crush) to notice him by swimming laps while she sun bathed. Conversely, in “Lessons of Love” the narrator tried to get her crush to notice her by walking in front of him on her way to her classes and by walking around inside the store that he works at. Another similarity is that the narrator's thought of their crushes as if they were the only meaning of their life and why they do the things they