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

Conrad, Joseph
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Character Analyses

The Narrator:

He is the fifth man "present" on board the Nellie. As a result of
listening to Marlowe's story he undergoes a moral transformation. As Seymour
Gross has pointed out, the narrator perceives optimistically at the beginning
of the tale: the Thames is flooded in a "benign immensity of unstained light."
At the end the narrator, like Marlowe, understands some of the brute realities
inherent in life and the Thames "seemed to lead into the heart of an immense
darkness." By a kind of rhetorical trick the narrator merges in function ...

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