In the chapter 'A Fishy Story, describe the false tales of catching the trout told to the author and his friend
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In the chapter 'A Fishy Story, describe the false tales of catching the trout told to the author and his friend
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arrator J. tells this story in Chapter XVII of Three Men in a Boat. On the second night of their boat trip, J. and George (along with the dog Montmorency) stop at an inn in Wallingford. They’ve been around fishermen before, so they’re familiar with the tendency of anglers to boast and to exaggerate about their catches and experiences. This story supports the stereotype.
Their attention is drawn to a glass display case on the wall. It contains a mounted, trophy-sized trout. The two friends embark in casual conversation with four other male customers, one by one, as they come and go. And each man tells them a story about how he caught that particular trout. Each subsequent tale is taller than the one told before it. Then the landlord of the inn comes into the room. J. and George ask him about the fish, explaining that the four previous gentlemen already claimed they had been the ones to land it. The landlord laughs and tells instead how he caught the fish. J. and George know enough not to call anyone on the truths of these stories. But they are still mesmerized by the fish itself. George climbs up on a chair for a closer look at it; and darned if the chair, George, and the display case don’t all end up falling on the floor. You would think that a stuffed fish could perhaps survive such an accident. But this one breaks into “a thousand fragments,” according to J. It turns out it was a fake fish after all. It had been made of plaster of Paris. Everyone had lied to them. But the boasts and the tall tales hadn’t been told maliciously. They were just the kinds of stories that fishermen are known for telling.