no, i do agree with warmgun that there's evidence of schizophrenia. this is a downright classic bit of unreliable narrator.
so, has he created the bold circumstances for revenge in his mind? has he ever even BEEN to sea? this could easily be transplanted into a modern story and is rich in genre-bounding metaphor - he finally defeats his foe, imagined or not, in the mouth of the beast; his mother's voice eggs him on to a slow burn revenge, lurks his whole life through up until this moment - perhaps his final. awesome.
no, i do agree with warmgun that there's evidence of schizophrenia. this is a downright classic bit of unreliable narrator.
so, has he created the bold circumstances for revenge in his mind? has he ever even BEEN to sea? this could easily be transplanted into a modern story and is rich in genre-bounding metaphor - he finally defeats his foe, imagined or not, in the mouth of the beast; his mother's voice eggs him on to a slow burn revenge, lurks his whole life through up until this moment - perhaps his final. awesome.