I believe it is anecdotal.
I hope that helps ; )
Answer: more details please
Explanation:
I believe the answer is <span>obsession with the past
in the novel, Ahab is depicted as the only character that do not grow throughout the story due to his single-minded obsession.
He stabbed his first whale when he was eighteen years old and yet still obsessed until he's almost 50.</span>
When two sentence have equal importance and are related, you can combine them to form a compound sentence, using coordinating conjuctions (<span>for, and, no, but, or, yet, so)</span>