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Initially, I reacted positively to Ahab’s wife.  As I began to read, I was allured by a life of exploration and of seafaring to distant places.  Una’s decision to disguise herself as a man was a risk that was also particularly appealing to me. At this point, I also held an idealistic and optimistic view of the journey ahead. I could identify with her risk-taking.  As a fan of whales, I stopped relating to Una when the whaling began. In terms of our course and the connection, the sequence of Una’s choices impact and forever change the course of her life.  Kit, Giles, and Una survive together from their cannibalistic experience, but they face the harsh moral implications of these decisions.  Una may have supported her decision to live, but I wonder just as Giles did whether this scarring of their consciences (especially Kit's) really made it worthwhile.