The narrators in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” and “Lessons of Love” both fell in love with someone that doesn’t notice them and from this learned a big lesson. The narrator in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” would do everything possible to get Sheila Mant to notice him, “to win her attention would do endless laps between my house and the Vermont Shore, hoping she would notice the beauty of my flutter kick, the power of my crawl.” Sheila is a 17 year old while the narrator is only 14. Sheila is a very outgoing and always partying or relaxing by the water while the narrator is kept to himself and doing activities with nature. They are exact opposites. When the narrator finally works up enough courage to ask her out on a date during the softball game, she accepts. …show more content…
Sheila calls fishing dumb but the narrator had already casted his fishing rod, so to act like he didn’t like it either he hid the rod beneath his legs. He caught “the biggest bass I had ever hooked,” but to make himself look better in front of Sheila, he had to not let her find out. After hiding the fact he had caught a bass for a while, he cut the line and let the fish go. Sheila talks about only herself while the narrator doesn’t say much at all because he was too worried about the fish. When they finally get to the concert, Sheila ditched him to hangout with another guy and ends up leaving with him. The narrator learned that he shouldn’t change himself to impress a girl. The narrator of “Lessons of Love” had a very similar experience. She fell for a rich and popular senior while she was just an invisible freshman to him. She would go out of her way to get him to notice him, trips to the supermarket, hoping to see him working there. The boy said, “excuse me” to her and that really made her want to see