Captain Macwhirr Character Analysis

Conveying your attitude towards a character through words alone is a very difficult task to fulfill. In this essay, however, the speaker has done an excellent job getting across the point that although Captain MacWhirr’s character may seem to be nothing but an ordinary, uninteresting man, in reality, there is much more to his character than meets the eye. In lines 17-19 the speaker says “Yet the uninteresting lives of men so entirely given o the actuality of the bare existence have their mysterious side.” In this case, Captain MacWhirr’s “mysterious side” is his natural ability as a seaman. At home, Captain MacWhirr was seen only as a “perfectly satisfactory son of the petty grocer,” nobody could have foreseen that this ordinary man was capable