The Whaler takes place out in the nature, with the view to at hill that according to the Whaler looks like a breast. T he narrator, who is a young boy, tells us that he knows the man on the hill as the Whaler, who was his idol. It’s a very wild nature with bushes, and behind one of those, the narrator meets the Whaler who is sitting and defecating. He becomes very embarrassed and wants to leave immediately, but the Whaler calls him back.
The Whaler is very liberated, and in one with the nature:
“…I realized to my extreme embarrassment that he was defecating… He pulled some lush grass expertly and reached under his cloak.”
The Whaler knows the narrator through a woman named Eileen, that the Whaler has had a sexual relationship with:
“Ellen said you’re an imaginative boy”
“’Can you keep another secret?’… She likes you… I’ve known her for years.”
And by known, he means known in its sexual meaning:
“Many good ride I had from her. Even when Jack was still alive”
He is lonesome and he seems drunk, as he starts telling secrets to a little young boy, and doesn’t feel any remorse in ruining the little boy’s imagination of him, by telling the boy that he never saw a whale in real life. After letting the boy in on his deepest secrets he rips off some of the young boy’s bread and leaves. A month later he hangs himself.
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