The Trout

💜THE TROUT 💜

In "The Trout," O'Faolain handles a simple theme: a child's discovery of love and kindness. the story unravels in a simple setting-  a country home. The author shows a keen understanding of human personality.

Understanding of life. At first, Julia wants to keep the trout for herself even though he was in a cramped space. In the end she realizes he needs to be released.

The story “The Trout” by Sean O’Faolain is about a young girl named Julia and her brother finding a trout in a well. The story takes place in Ireland in their home in a place they call the dark walk. The story represents the coming of age, but also portrays different things through the characters and other devices. Through Julia and different situations, we see a caring yet arrogant person, and we see her thoughtfulness.

In life, we should let things go because it's also a way of finding the happiness and it's a freedom of having own life.  The words incredulous tell us how she was not believing what was being told to her, and how she was denying what could really be. Although she was being told, she acted like an adolescent going against the statement until she saw the well with her own eyes. When Julia was answering questions her brother was asking about the trout being gone, she was described as “supercilious”. She talks to people feeling superior because she knows what happened to the trout. When she could have told him she saved it she decided to keep it mysterious and another story to be told. Julia was being thoughtful when it came about the fish in the well.