Pushed away: Salmon (I)

It knocks back what is offered, resources and openings alike, usually by objecting to the form the offer took rather than to the offer itself, which keeps the refusal looking like discernment. Deprivation and denigration in childhood set the ration low and set it early, and an arrival that exceeds the ration produces suspicion faster than it produces appetite. What it asks for is to accept one thing in the shape it actually came in.

Something good turns up and my first move is to find what's wrong with the way it arrived.

It echoes Naaman, who came a long way for a cure and rode off in a temper because it was offered too plainly and in the wrong river, and had to be talked round by his own servants. The form implies a task: to let somebody talk one round.