The narrator has grown up a lot since the story where he was quite immature and
young. He is now thirty years old. He still admires fishing, but he doesn't have much
time for it because he lives in the city. He is the CEO of this new printing company
downtown. A couple of years after the story took place, he turned sixteen and
bought a sports car. He then took another chance to get with Sheila. He knew that
Sheila would probably date him only because of his new sports car. This didn't
bother him though, because he knew that once Sheila hung out with him for awhile
that she would like him with a sports car or not. She did date him naturally until he
wrecked the sports car. It was totaled. She broke up with him because he no longer
had the sports car. He then realized that Sheila was extremely materialistic and that
she really didn't have any feelings for the narrator. This is the time in the narrator's
life where he matures the most. Before this time, he was just a naive boy that didn't
know Sheila was that shallow. He was still really in love with her. He then had no
will to fish and started to get into school more and take it more seriously, because he
realized that school was going to get him where he needed to go and that fishing was
only a boyish pastime. The narrator graduated with honors and attended Yale
majoring in business administration. He graduated and soon after became the CEO of
a printing company that was ran by his cousin. The narrator no longer fishes, but has
the idea that once he retires that he will return to his favorite pastime as a child.
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