Fish | Themes
Themes
Resurrection
Resurrection means to rise from the dead or to revive. Resurrection is the narrator's primary theme in "Fish." Many of the narrator's memories over the course of the story are concerned with little moments in which resurrection has occurred or nearly occurred, for example, the father's birth a year after his stillborn brother; his childhood recovery from pneumonia; his depression and subsequent recovery as an adult; and the daughter leaving her marriage and starting her life anew. The imminence of...
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