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The last reason is his specifically American sense of catharsis, which I trace to Melville's Moby Dick, in which the repressed unconscious desire and anger of the main character breaks the surface of the water like an immense Freudian phallus. The whale's a metaphor for Melville's homosexuality as well, but it's is also symbol of the way we repress our desires and anger only to have them rupture the surface of our decorous façades.
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Wow! And I thought Moby Dick was just about a big fish
Great analysis of King and why he is so successful at what he does. .