Youth | Characters
The forty-two-year-old Marlow is the main character, as well as the principal narrator. He tells the story to a group of listeners who include a chief executive of business companies, a lawyer, an accountant, and an unnamed frame narrator— presumably Conrad himself. The five men are all established and successful in middle age, and, according to the frame narrator, they share one major bond: They all began their professional careers in the "merchant service," or the craft of moving cargo by sea. However, beyond this brief description, Marlow's auditors are not characterized and play...
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