HOD #25

“I shall see this eloquent phantom as long as I live, and I shall see her, too, a tragic and familiar Shade” (p.71). Marlow expresses his thoughts about Kurtz’s Intended, a woman who loved Kurtz dearly. He says how much of an impact she had on him, and how he will always remember her and her feelings towards Mr. Kurtz. He could connect with her feelings, delineated by “a tragic and familiar Shade.” Up to this point in the book there is some uncertainty about who Kurtz really was. Conrad uses Marlow’s visit to Kurtz’s Intended to clear up some questions about Kurtz. Marlow discovers someone who loved Kurtz, and some of his feeling about Kurtz may have changed from this incident.