HOD #13

“He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there” (p.21). Marlow meets a young aristocrat who is very interested in Marlow. He talks to him for a long while, and mentions people from Europe that he thought Marlow would know. To the reader it seems as though the man believed that Marlow, being from Europe, knew of everybody that lived there. This is a common deception of mankind that Conrad might have wanted to point out. Throughout this novel the author hints at a few of our kind’s mistakes in life, and he must want his audience to notice them as well.