In this short scene, we learn that the whale's name is "white whale" and that he is the father of "dolly" . He tells everyone that he has been hiding in the "hell" for ten years to "revitalize" his daughter. If he dies, he will be remembered as the father who "put dolly in danger" and as the one who "destroyed" his plan to "create a new body" for dolly. He wants to resurrect her, he says, because she is the soul of his daughter and he wants her to rest peacefully in peace.