 Wolf Larsen portrays capitalists as people who care only for themselves and are willing to destroy other people for personal gain.Larsen injures and kills his sailors without hesitation, except when the loss of a sailor would harm the productivity of seal hunting which would harm the profits for Larsen; this is a dramatic representation of capitalism and capitalists harming poor people.The word "Wolf" has the highest number of occurrences in the novel, appearing 422 times.