The meaning of the word trifles helps us to understand the little value grow up people give to the feelings of children. Its meaning get clearer when seeing the comparison to the importance is given to the feelings of grow up people. Although, In the Fish I didn’t Catch, written by John Greenleaf Whittier in 1843, the tone seems different. The narrator regrets that fact of not giving much importance to the feelings of children, because when adults pay attention to them children grow more aware of the world and how things really happen. That is the precise meaning of the Fish I didn’t Catch, that lesson taught him since he was a kid, not to boast before something is done. He thanked his uncle for paying attention to his feelings because that helped him grow.
