English

Stanley Bishop

7 December, 19:39

Read the passage from Moby-Dic. How is the main character, Captain Ahab, characterized in this passage?

From Moby-Dic

One morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the cabin gangway to the deck. There most sea captains usually walk at that hour, as country gentlemen, after the same meal, take a few turns in the garden.

Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over dented, like geological stones, with the peculiar mark of his walk. Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger footprints-the footprints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.

a former geologist

a former country gentleman

a man of many interests

a brooding, broken man