![]() One "privileged reader" receives the story of Jim's fate and the final events, through Marlow's imaginative reconstruction, on the basis of firsthand accounts by Brown, Jewel, and Tamb' Itam. The oral storytelling concludes here, but the thread of the story is lifted again in written form. The narrative flits back and forth through time and concludes with an incomplete picture, ending on the note of Jim's charmed life-but also Jewel's expression to Marlow regarding some future dread. On the verandah, he tells Jim's story, and the story is pieced together by means of his own observations, Jim's direct statements, and statements by his friend, the owner of a rice mill, Egstrom, one of Jim's employers, and Schomberg the Bangkok hotelkeeper. Marlow is then presented telling his story to a gathering. The novel begins in a third-person, omniscient voice, with a close view of Jim's inner life, and then shifts to a clear narrator, Marlow. ![]() ![]() Buy Study Guide Piecing Together the Story ![]()
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