Moby-Dick discussion questions Chapter 35 “The Mast-Head”: What is the mast-head
- What is the mast-head? Is it different on various sorts of ships?
- To what landed things does Ishmael compare the mast-head?
- Explain Ishmael’s attitude toward being on the mast-head.
- « How does the end of the chapter present the Transcendentalist perspective? How, then, does it “answer” that point of view?