<P> Soon after the fishing excursion , Norman is again contacted by the police . They tell him that Paul has been found beaten to death in an alley , and that all the bones in his right hand have also been broken . Norman goes home and tells his parents the sad news . The story then jumps ahead a few years to a sermon being given by John with Mrs. Maclean , Norman , Jessie and their two children in attendance . The narrator mentions that John dies soon after this sermon . The last scene is of Norman as an old man , back in the Montana river where he used to fish with his family many years before . He mentions that nearly everyone from his youth is dead , including Jessie , and that he is haunted by waters . </P>
<P> Soon after the fishing excursion , Norman is again contacted by the police . They tell him that Paul has been found beaten to death in an alley , and that all the bones in his right hand have also been broken . Norman goes home and tells his parents the sad news . The story then jumps ahead a few years to a sermon being given by John with Mrs. Maclean , Norman , Jessie and their two children in attendance . The narrator mentions that John dies soon after this sermon . The last scene is of Norman as an old man , back in the Montana river where he used to fish with his family many years before . He mentions that nearly everyone from his youth is dead , including Jessie , and that he is haunted by waters . </P>
old man at the end of a river runs through it
old man at the end of a river runs through it
Norman
Norman