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He is lonely and is very close with his sister. Walton's story is very similar to that of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in that it is likely that he has also had some kind of falling out with his crew. The letters are also Mary Shelley's way of opening and closing the story in a way that makes sense.

It is theorized that Robert Walton was also beginning to find himself driven a little bit mad, and thus his perspective of the story is possibly a little bit warped. Writing to his sister was likely a way to prevent his psyche from degenerating any more quickly.

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He is lonely and needs someone to whom he can pour his soul out. He constantly says that he has no friends nearby in Russia.

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I want to say it's the fact that their ship was trapped with all the ice caps OR the fact that they came across a man (Frankenstein) so far from civilization

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