It becomes clear early on that relationships, both with friends and with family, is an important aspect in the lives of the characters in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Both Walton and Victor desire a close friendship. In Walton's letters to his sister, he mentions how lonely he felt aboard his ship. "I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate in my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection: (Shelley, 4). Because of this loneliness, it seems natural that Walton became so quickly attached to Victor when they rescued him from the ice. After further reading, though, I found that the two men were similar in so many ways; they share numerous characteristics.
Both men are unbelievably ambitious. They, at one point in their lives, desired to do something seemingly impossible, something that had never been done before. Walton was trying to reach the icy north pole for the first time to discover the workings of magnets and compasses. Victor had had a dream to put life into an inanimate or dead object. Both men are very close familial ties. However, for both men, the more/longer they pursued their goal, the more they lost connection with their families. The fact that the two men were so similar gave Victor the reassurance to confide his story in Walton, so that we may learn the story as well.
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