At the Foot of the Rainbow
Friends since childhood, Dannie Macnoun has always admired and gone out of his way to help Jimmy Malone and, despite the great harm he suffers at Jimmy's hands, remains blind to his friend's deceitful and spiteful character.
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What an engrossing story of friendship—close enough friendship that the better of the two men, in diligently covering for the weaker man's faults, sees only the man Jimmy could/should be and not the weak, cowardly man who lies and drinks and shirks. By contrast, we see how big a man Dannie really is, how strong a character he has.
Between the two men is the woman they have both loved for ages, Mary—Jimmy's wife. She is tired out and used up with Jimmy's slackness, and Jimmy himself is not grateful for her in the least. Yet there next door is Dannie, daily enduring double his work to serve his friend and the woman he loves, willing to torture himself with nearness to her simply because his friend needs him. What a tale of sacrificial love!
In all those heavier themes runs the underlying sage of the Black Bass and the men's friendly or not so friendly rivalry to be the man who finally lands the elusive fish.
