In "Fish Story" by Rick Bass, the element that I think that is an effective aspect of the story is the point of view element. The story is written from the first person point of view. The author, Rick Bass skillfully describes a fishing expedition in Texas in the 1960s when he was ten years old. Bass has a vivid imagination to describe the process of this story with such detail. One of his father's customers caught an eighty-six-pound catfish and since he was already in debt to Bass' father and didn't have the money, he gave up the fish. Little Rick was tasked with keeping the fish alive and cool until the time came to cook it at a BBQ. He was not very fascinated with it evidenced in his description, "a swollen, gasping, grotesque netherworld
