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The Narrator's Father
the father
also: старик-отец, the old sailor
The narrator's father, an old, hunchbacked sailor with a face like a baked apple; a drunken, dissolute man who eggs his son on to spy on the newlyweds and only feigns protectiveness once the spectacle turns ugly.
Reading notes
- At Sea (a sailor's story) §12 My father
The narrator's father, an old, hunchbacked sailor serving on the same ship; a drunken, dissolute man by his own son's account.