Answer:
The narrator express regret of losing the chance to catch the bass, his passion, for the sake of impressing her date.
Explanation:
'The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant' is a short story written by W.D. Wetherell. The story is about an unnamed narrator and his date with a two year older girl named Sheila Mant.
The narrator has a crush on Sheila and one day girding up his courage, he asked her for a date to which she agrees. But after going on the date, Sheila frowned upon the idea of going to the concert on a canoe. She also sledged on his passion for fishing saying that it is stupid.
The narrator for the sake of impressing her, forgot his passion of catching the bass, which he regretted later because she left after the concert with another guy with a fancy car. The narrator, in the end, asserted that he never made this mistake of losing one's passion for the sake of someone else.
