In the short stories “Lessons of Love” by Judith Ortiz and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell the narrators are both similar and different. In the story “Lessons of Love” the narrator is a girl and in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” the narrator is a boy. The difference is important because boys act different than girls in the sense of crushes or true loves. For instance in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” the narrator was watching her through bushes and finally got the nerve to ask her out and in “Lessons of Love” the narrator went to the grocery everyday just to see him. Another difference is that in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” she never even notices that he like her, even when he asked he on