“The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell is a short story dealing with the narrator’s infatuations with an older girl named Sheila Mant. Sheila is directly described as pensieve, queenly, and severe on first impressions, however she is later shown to be apathetic, egotistical, and downright rude. When the narrator first gathers the courage to talk to Sheila, she doesn’t notice him at first, seemingly absorbed in something else. “She didn’t seem surprised to see me- as a matter of fact, she didn’t seem to see me at all,” writes the narrator on page 16. This attitude from Sheila continues through the conversation and she doesn’t even bother to look up at the narrator. Later, when the narrator arrives at her house, Sheila doesn’t
