comment on theme

The Curse of Lono is marked by displays of excessive masculinity, particularly on the part of the protagonist. Hunter is aggressive. He occasionally seeks to provoke other males with verbal abuse and sometimes resorts physical violence, such as shoving a lit cigarette into a man's face or, without provocation, kicking another man in the groin. This violence climaxes at sea, when Hunter bludgeons a marlin to death with a Samoan war club.