In life when you are in the age of growing up and becoming an adult, it takes realizations, before you can move on in your life. Every child needs a hero to believe in, and a dream of what you want to be when you grow up. But unfortunately, there comes a point in every child’s life, where the person you idolize and look up to, is just a human like everybody else. This is exactly what happens to the narrator in this short story ‘The Whaler’ by Joe Sheerin, where he meets his idol, who turns out to be anything else but heroic, and admirable.
The story is written in the past, as if the narrator is having a flashback on his life, where he realizes the truth about his childhood hero. The story takes place in an Irish village, which is clarified by the fact that the Whaler in the text uses a Gaelic term while speaking to the narrator. Also because of the term that Eileen Early is living in a cottage.
The setting of the story is a beach, where the narrator and the whaler are talking. You get the
Impression of a wasted landscape which parallels the desolate and lonely mood of the whaler.
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