"Once More to the Lake" is an essay first published in Harper's magazine in 1941 by author E. B. White. It chronicles his pilgrimage back to a lakefront resort he visited as a child.
In "Once More to the Lake," White revisits his ideal boyhood vacation spot. He finds great joy in his visit, which ironically causes him to struggle to remember that he is now a man.
The story shows him engaged in an internal struggle between acting and viewing the l...
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"Once More to the Lake" is an essay first published in Harper's magazine in 1941 by author E. B. White. It chronicles his pilgrimage back to a lakefront resort he visited as a child.
In "Once More to the Lake," White revisits his ideal boyhood vacation spot. He finds great joy in his visit, which ironically causes him to struggle to remember that he is now a man.
The story shows him engaged in an internal struggle between acting and viewing the lake as he did when a boy and acting and viewing it as an adult, or as his father would have. Although White sees the lake as having remained nearly identical to the lake of his boyhood, technology mars his experience and the new, noisier boats disturb the serene atmosphere at the lake. This could be taken to suggest that technology is impure or damaging, except that the same paragraph contains a lengthy reminiscence in which White rhapsodizes about his boyhood affection for an old one-cylinder engine. The memory balances the theme of...
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