Spanish Armada

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the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588

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Reno's focus here is predictable--she singles out Chapter 87, "The Grand Armada," along with Ishmael's images of weaving, as symbols of wholeness and interconnection.
Janet Reno, Ishmael Alone Survived
Before beginning an analysis of "After the Storm" and "The Grand Armada," I'd like to review what we know of Hemingway's interest in Melville.
In "The Grand Armada," Ishmael makes much of the immense number of spouts they see around them, first describing them as "a continuous chain of whale-jets ...
This same sense of a calm within the storm governs Ishmael's perception of the whale in "The Grand Armada." After shaking free of the pirates and taking to their whaleboats, the Pequod's crew discovers that the whales have become "gallied," meaning that the once well-ordered "herd" has dissolved into "one measureless rout ...
And, in a ghoulish inversion of the whale's transformation in "The Grand Armada," the tarpon or "jewfish" that are inevitably attracted to the wreck in "After the Storm" undergo a metabolic (as opposed to a metaphysical) process of "humanization," growing unbelievably huge on their diet of human offal.
A window on the prey: the hunter sees a human face in Hemingway's "After the Storm" and Melville's "The Grand Armada." (Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville)
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