(Click the character infographic to download.) Call Me What, Now?It seems pretty easy to identify Ishmael and his role in Moby-Dick: he’s a young, white, American man living in the mid-nineteenth...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Meet The Dude Whose Name Is Synonymous With RevengeCaptain Ahab: one of the best whaling captains in Nantucket, the commander of the Pequod, and de...

(Click the character infographic to download.) This Starbuck Ain't Going To Make You A Pumpkin Spice LatteStarbuck, the first mate on board the Pequod, is a long, thin, earnest Nantucket Quaker. Hi...

Stubb is the boorish uncle that makes says mean things at the Thanksgiving table and then says "Can't you take a joke?" But he's also the guy who diffuses tension you can cut with a knife with that...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Poor Pip. First he's saddled with one of the more unfortunate names we can think of and then he goes whaling on the dang Pequod.Pip is a young African...

Father Mapple: the source for everything you ever wanted to know about Jonah. Oh, you didn't want to know anything about Jonah? Too bad. Father Mapple is the clergyman at the little New Bedford Wha...

Captain Boomer, the commander of the English whaling ship the Samuel Enderby, is like Ahab’s reflection in a funhouse mirror: like Ahab, he lost a limb to Moby Dick, a limb that has been replaced...