The Caine Mutiny | Characters
Occasionally, a novelist is able to introduce a character that becomes a part of his country's "folklore"; Wouk has done so with Lieutenant Commander Philip Queeg. Millions of Americans who have never read The Caine Mutiny know of the tyrannical, paranoid skipper of the Caine, rolling a pair of steel ball bearings between his fingers as he becomes more nervous and frightened of the responsibility thrust upon him by the nature of his command. Queeg, the only career Navy man on the Caine, sees himself as a man alone against a hostile universe: His ship is aging, his...
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