The Question and Answer section for The Fish is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
McDunn tells Johnny that the lighthouse tower has a fog horn which makes a noise that sounds like an animal. He says that every year, a mysterious creature visits the lighthouse, supposedly beckoned by the noise of the fog horn, which seems to...
From the text:
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
The poem can be seen as an ode to the beauty of nature. The fish thus is the object used to observe and praise the workings of nature. The fish is weighty and its appearance talks of age and wisdom. A great deal of the poem is used to observe and...
