Carpenter

person

Version: 3 (current) | Updated: 12/18/2025, 2:59:33 AM | Created: 12/18/2025, 2:27:05 AM

Extracted from: 01KCQM7F7MX1EQPEX5HXSG1JCV

Merged entities: 01KCQNHAWQ7P761ZZE4F7NQ8F2

Auto-merged: code-based match in lineage (batch 1)

Description

The ship's carpenter aboard the Pequod, a stolid, practical man who works with detached efficiency. He is shown crafting Ahab's ivory leg and later building Queequeg's coffin, treating both tasks with the same impersonal craftsmanship, symbolizing the intersection of life and death aboard the ship.

Relationships

constructs
Ivory Legobject
  • material: whale jawbone
  • tools: chisel, file, sandpaper
Coffinobject
  • material: Lackaday wood
  • purpose: Queequeg's burial
measures
Queequegperson
  • purpose: build coffin
  • method: chalks body on planks
reflects on
Ahabperson
  • thought: queer, hard driver
  • metaphor: heron's leg

Version History (3 versions)

  • ✓ v3 (current) · 12/18/2025, 2:59:33 AM
    "Auto-merged: code-based match in lineage (batch 1)"
  • v2 · 12/18/2025, 2:27:40 AM · View this version
    "Added 4 relationship(s)"
  • v1 · 12/18/2025, 2:27:05 AM · View this version

No children (leaf entity)