Gulliver's Travels Study Guide

The narrator, also the hero of our story, Gulliver, starts by telling the reader that his father sent him to school when he was young. Gulliver was schooled to become a surgeon there and he also took up navigation and other subjects that would be valuable at sea. After his education, he became a doctor on a ship for a couple of years. Gulliver then decided to settle down in London, married, and set up a practice. After his only friend and mentor died, his business failed and he was forced to once again take a position on a ship. After sailing with the ship for a couple of more years, he once again tried to open a practice. Once again, the practice failed and he was commissioned by a captain as a ship doctor once again. (read more)