Allric Tulzer's Narrative Analysis

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Heavily intoxicated, Allric Tulzer stumbled into his first-class cabin, his stomach lurching more from the whiskey than the constant flowing motion of the ocean liner. Before boarding Olympic, he had discreetly bid those in his employ to return to Rochester; he had no need of their services during the voyage. He desired solitude and until Allric reached Southampton, that is what he expected.
Olympic or Old Reliable, as the massive ship had been affectionately called after the Great War, had pulled away from the White Star piers just hours before, leaving Allric to his own devices; his own thoughts and reality at the forefront of his mind. The first thing he wished to do was forget; to burn away the burdens following him with the scorch of the steeply-priced whiskey that awaited all men in favor of strong drink in the A-Deck smoking room.
Normally, Allric would not be given to such arbitrary behavior, but the need to commemorate the
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He looked out at the vastness of the great Atlantic, deliberately storing the color of the crystal-blue water and the humbling enormity of the expanse in his memory. Then he continued to think of his grandfather, Burke Tulzer. Feeling the muscles of his jaw tense, Allric reflected on the years passed and truly regretted that his family had not returned to London after settling in America. From what his father, Lyle, had told him, it was hard for his grandfather to travel; he moved slowly and felt himself a burden to his traveling companions. But by some impressive persuasion, followed by well-lain guilt, Allric’s father coerced the old man into booking his passage to New York, as to be a part of his youngest grandson’s wedding. Lyle promised that he, himself, would sail out to meet his father, but Allric saw that if he volunteered to take the journey, he would be allowed the time needed to come to terms with the impending

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