While Ahab obsesses over revenge and first mate Starbuck  tries to reason with him, Ishmael takes us  on his own quest for meaning throughout “the whole universe,  not excluding its suburbs.” In his telling, life’s biggest questions  loom large, even in the smallest details.
Enquanto Ahab se mantém obcecado com a vingança e o primeiro marinheiro Starbuck tenta chamá-lo à razão, Ismael arrasta-nos para a sua procura do sentido por "todo o universo, sem excluir os seus subúrbios". Na sua forma de contar, as maiores questões avolumam-se,