Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0928 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Conrad's Unnamed Voice
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The idea
Heart of Darkness opens with the Nellie, a cruising yawl, swinging to her anchor without a flutter of the sails. The next paragraph says the sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us. There is a narrator, he is aboard, and he is never named.
In practice
Aboard, speaking, unnamed.
Where people slip
The pronoun is us, not I.
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