s his daily occupation, while for his pastime he reads Herbert Spencer and Browning, or talks philosophy, will seem no less grotesquely fictitious than the Caliban to whom he is compared" (Nuernberg 104). Nuernberg is comparing Larsen to a Caliban, which is a savage and deformed slave in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Herbert Spencer was a great English philosopher and Robert Browning was a French poet. This quote proves Larsen's ever-changing personality.
             Although the crew of Larsen's ship and even his own brother hated him he is still considered to be the hero of the book by many critics and readers. Nuernberg asks, "And who is the hero of the book? Lars
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