Moby-Dick discussion questions Chapter 67 “Cutting In” and Chapter 68 “The Blanket”
- What strikes you most about the process of cutting in? Describe the impression you think Melville wants you to have on this process.
- For what does Ishmael use dried pieces of the whale’s outer coating? In what way is that a metaphor for this book?
- To what does Ishmael compare the markings on the whale? In what way is that, too, a metaphor for the book?
- For what reason and in what way does Ishmael tell people to model themselves after the whale?
