Many reviewers suggest that the theme of this story by W.D. Wetherell is love. The only real “loves” in the plot are the narrator’s love for fishing and Sheila’s love for herself. For me, the theme is the lengths people go to in pursuing infatuation. Although Sheila is a self-absorbed tease, at the beginning of the story the narrator takes his infatuation too far. The story was published in 1983. Today, the way he creeps through the woods to watch Sheila’s house at night, and studies her every movement as she sunbathes by day, could see him arrested for stalking. More…