The Symphony: Ahab's Humanity

From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The novel's most lyrical chapter, in which Ahab nearly turns back, mourning forty years of whaling and the wife he barely knew.
Chapter 132 (The Symphony)

'I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck.' Ahab's tear into the sea—and his refusal to relent.

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