Narrativep4

**Argument**
Herman Melville uses digression throughout the epic story of Moby Dick. He starts off by having a main narrator, Ishmael, introduce himself and talk about himself and what his goal is upon taking board a whaling ship. As the story transcends, Ishmael seems to stop narrating about himself and sort of fades into the background while narrating the events and feelings of other crew members.

=Analysis=

Moby Dick portrays a creative way of using narrative structure and digression in order to deviate from the main plot and into a story with much more meaning. The story starts off with Ishmael who wants to take part in a whaling expedition in order to gain the experience and knowledge of such an important industry of his time. During the voyage, he ends up learning a lot of the whaling industry but here Melville deviates into writing a story not about whaling but of man vs. nature and transcendentalism.