When on that shivering winter's night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her helm but Bulkington!
" You have been wonderfully quick, " her father retorted, with a vindictive politeness that was quite thrown away upon her. " Michael first, " he said doggedly.
The vindictive psychology of some men is beyond such analysis, but the expectations widely imposed on women, and how non-conformists are treated, can be probed, and maybe even changed.