"Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness." p.163
This is the point in the story when the stories of Victor and Robert Walton collide. After finishing Victor's horrid cautious tale, Victor falls ill and dies. But, it is not only until the creature arrives, that the stories' line of sequence really hit. After promising Victor to hunt down the creature and his crew resolving to return south, Walton had certainly not expected the creature to come to him. Surprised and/or apparently unarmed, he cannot kill the creature and fulfill his promise. I'm not sure Walton is as emotionally scarred as someone like Victor to be able to kill anyways. Saying that, he does heed the advice of Victor and not being persuaded by the creature. He needs not to do the will of Victor; the creature is going down in flames.
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