Lord Jim에서의 Marlow의 예술적 여정

Marlow’s Quest As a Story-teller in Lord Jim

Lord Jim has two stories. One is Jim’s adventurous quest and the other is Marlow’s story-telling quest. Marlow’s attempt to communicate, however, is doomed to fail, for he cannot capture Jim’s experience or its meaning for himself. The self-doubting nature of Marlow’s involvement with Jim makes his narrative fragmented and self-tormented, and the ending is a compound of uncertainty, contradiction, and ambivalence. Marlow’s anguish in the drama of telling arises from the impossibility of fictional finis, in spite of the finality of Jim’s death. The writer struggle with the inadequacy of language, striving for a sense of clarity which turns out to be unattainable.