![]() ![]() Rather than catch up with it, he plays piano for an admiral who has taken a shine to him. Willie, with a low opinion of the Navy, misses his ship when it leaves on a combat assignment. Caine, an obsolete warship converted from a post- World War I-era destroyer. After barely surviving a series of misadventures that earn him the highest number of demerits in his class, he is commissioned as an ensign in the Naval Reserve and assigned to the destroyer minesweeper U.S.S. He endures inner conflicts over his relationship with his domineering mother and with May Wynn, a beautiful red-haired nightclub singer, the daughter of Italian immigrants. Following a mediocre living as a nightclub piano player, he signs up for midshipman school at Columbia University with the United States Navy to avoid being drafted into the United States Army during World War II. The story is told through the eyes of Willis Seward "Willie" Keith, an affluent but callow young graduate of Princeton University. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot. ![]() The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during Typhoon Cobra, in December 1944. Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains and other officers. ![]() The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific Theater in World War II. The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. ![]()
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