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Heart Of Darkness Symbolism

From the deck of his steamboat, Marlow overhears the Manager and his uncle, the head of the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, talking about Kurtz. The Manager admits to his uncle that he fears Kurtz, for he is favored by the company and may be promoted into his position of general manager. He is also jealous of Kurtz's success in providing quantities of ivory, for the Manager knows this will win him even more favor in the company. The Manager, in retaliation, is determined to continue the withholding of supplies to Kurtz, as he has done for the last nine months.

The Manager then tells his uncle of Kurtz sending an unqualified English clerk down the river in charge of a fleet of canoes carrying a load of ivory. He adds that Kurtz had apparently begun the trip with the clerk, but after traveling for three hundred miles, had turned back in a small canoe with four paddlers, sending the clerk on with the ivory. Marlow feels he "sees" Kurtz for the first time and speculates that Kurtz......


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