"How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery, without feeling the most poignant grief? He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence." (page 11)
In his letters, Walton tends to directly describe the other characters in the novel to his sister. For instance on page 5, he directly tells Margaret what kind of person the master on the ship is and provides an example in the story he writes about him as well. The individual he most directly describes in great detail at this point in the story is Victor. In the letter from August 13th, he writes and writes about Victor to Margaret, which freaked me out a little at first. However, it simply shows the parallels between the two men. It almost seemed as if he were writing out all of the qualities about Victor that he admired and saw as positives for him to be a potential friend. Directly characterizing Victor leaves the audience with little guesswork and space to draw their own conclusions about a character or the reasons for his actions. It instead lets us know exactly the kind of individual Victor is.
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