As E.B. White reflects on his childhood memories and revisits his favorite past vacation spot in Maine, he undergoes an internal struggle between acting and viewing the lake like he did as a kid and viewing it as his father had.White suffers a”dual existence” as he relives the experiences and sensations of his childhood while observing his son experience them for the first time. This creates the strange feeling that he is sometimes his son who is fishing and boating, and that he is sometimes his father. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how the lake in Maine reminds White that he is an adult. By comparing his son’s actions with his own behavior years before, and by describing the lake’s appearance, White soon accepts
As E.B. White reflects on his childhood memories and revisits his favorite past vacation spot in Maine, he undergoes an internal struggle between acting and viewing the lake like he did as a kid and viewing it as his father had.White suffers a”dual existence” as he relives the experiences and sensations of his childhood while observing his son experience them for the first time. This creates the strange feeling that he is sometimes his son who is fishing and boating, and that he is sometimes his father. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how the lake in Maine reminds White that he is an adult. By comparing his son’s actions with his own behavior years before, and by describing the lake’s appearance, White soon accepts