Not P but Moby-Dick (103)

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Mon Apr 8 00:25:59 UTC 2024


>From Chapter 130:

In this foreshadowing interval too, all humor, forced or natural, vanished.
Stubb no more strove to raise a smile; Starbuck no more strove to check
one.

Here, does "raise a smile" mean smile himself or cause others to smile?


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