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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Conrad, Joseph

Conrad, Joseph
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Lord Jim: Chapters 20 - 26

Chapter Twenty.

Marlow goes to the home of Stein, three miles outside of town. When he
arrives, he is shown into a vast room where Stein houses his collection. The
room is dark and gloomy except for a single lamp burning on a desk where Stein
sits examining one of his specimens. Marlow uses a revealing word to describe
the room; it is filled with "catacombs" of beetles.

Comment:

We notice that once again Conrad places his key figure in a small spot of
light and surrounds him with darkness, as if he were staging each scene of ...

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