The Sea Wolf belongs in the почесна tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840), Edgar Allan poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Herman and Melville's Moby Dick (1851).
The dominant subject is an intellectual conflict between a ship-wrecked literary figure, Humphrey Van Weyden, and the brutal captain of a seal-hunting schooner, Wolf Larsen, who rescues Van Weyden and puts him to menial work on the schooner. The central chapters focus on the gory details of seal-hunting, and the final section shows how far Van Weyden has learned seamanship as he restores The Ghost sailing to health and returns to port with the woman only passenger, another shipwrecked figure, to plight their troth.
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