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There She Blows
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""There She Blows;" An examination of the feminine in Moby Dick
by Bob Barsanti
In the Old Man and the Sea , it is so very, very simple. When Santiago was a
young man, full of energy and power, he viewed the ocean as a masculine force. Fish
and fortunes needed to be wrestled pulled from it. The ocean could be fought, tricked
and defeated, over and over, and a good, precise, honest man could return to port with
treasure. Then, as the old man got older, his experience gave the lie to his earlier
competitor. Hurricanes came whirling over the horizon and fishless days stretched into
fishless weeks and then into fishless months and the ocean's femininity became
revealed. She was powerful and whimsical, capable of wonderful gifts and tremendous
fury. A man can only be humble and patient before her; he has no power against her.
Would that Moby Dick were so simple. Both novels have only men, but Hemingway¹s
novel acknowledges that the men's club exists only at the whim of an eternal mother.
Melville's men's club sails a sea whose gender changes often and whose personality is
resolutely enigmatic. The feminine in Melville¹s novel hides her face in a veil of stars
and behind a cloud of words.
Literally, Moby Dick is a men's club, with only a glimpse of a woman in the
background, or reflected in the stories of the sailors. They seem to have no sexuality,
nor any personality. The two full blooded, dialogue speaking characters in the novel are
both servants. Mrs. Hussey ladles out ³Clam or Cod³ to Queequeg and Ishmael, bans
harpoons from her house, and busies herself like some cosmic washerwoman. In the
novel, she is a laughably comic figure brought out for a few laughs, and then forgotten.
Bildad's sister, Charity fares far worse. While Bildad and Peleg battle and thunder in
their wigwam on the deck of the Pequod, she outfits the boat, so "nothing could be
found wanting."(All Astir, p. 137) For all this work that she seems to be doing sin"
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