Benchley's book can be read as a parody of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851), a great American epic. A great white shark fills the role of Melville's albino whale. Like Moby Dick, the great fish is seen by hunters not simply as an unusually dangerous force, but as something possessing a malignant will.
It seems to be hunting them. "He was waiting for us," yells Brody on.....
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