Internal and External Conflicts in "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant"

In “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” the main character faces both internal and external conflicts. The main characters internal conflict is the fact that he fell in love with Sheila Mant and he likes her a lot. He didn’t have the courage to ask her out so he would try to impress her until one day he asked her out. He took her to the fair in a canoe and she told him how much she hated fishing. Fishing was one of his favorite things to do and he had a fishing pole in his canoe that caught a bass while they were talking. He doesn’t want to catch the bass because he doesn’t want Sheila to see him fish and possibly make a fool out of himself. The external conflict of the main character is the fish and Sheila Mant. The fish is a conflict for him because it is the biggest fish he has caught and he doesn’t know if he’s going to have a hard time reeling it in. Sheila Mant is another external conflict because she is rude and not that friendly towards him. As a result of these conflicts the narrator changes because now he knows that he will never make the mistake of letting love take control over things that he enjoys doing.