It’s so interesting to me how much comes from the whale and how we use its parts up when it comes to whaling. This chapter was so good to me. The idea of this thing coming from a whale is used for perfume. Melville is showing us all the aspects of the whale and the whale’s beauty, but at the same time showing us how we get all these products that are used to sell on land. “I say that motion of a Sperm Whale’s flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor.” (449) Melville is showing us that what people think of whales, whales all smell bad and they’re scary, but then shows us that the things people think of whales are not far from humans, and what whale’s store inside of them are the reasons for the goods that humans use, such as perfume that is sometimes made with Ambergris. Not only are humans so judgmental of this world/life of the sea, but they don’t even know where and how their goods are made and where they come from. Melville is showing us where and how these goods that humans use all the time, but also what humans think of whales when they don’t know the whale, one doesn’t know a whale until going whaling.