... her story can only be described as "scenes of wasted life, wasted love (Howe 1)," It is only the Reverend Curtis Hartman that is able to successfully release himself from the confines of his truth and restore his spirit to become a more actualized individual. In The Sea-Wolf, Wolf Larsen is the embodiment of all aspects of super- materialism. He adheres to its truths so strongly that it mars his very spirit and transforms him into a beast whose brutality is unsurpassable. Larsen takes the concept of "survival of the fittest" to a whole new level. His declaration that "might is right and that is all there is to it" is meant to be the basis of a concept, not the embodiment of a man (London 51). It is how Anderson describes in "The Book of the Grotesque" of a truth that is intrinsically beautiful, but once a man comes ...

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