Abstract
The End of the Tether, which Conrad completed in October 1902, is the last of the works of the period dominated by The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ and Lord Jim, and with it we return from short stories to the full-blown narrative structure. The new hero, Captain Whalley, like Wait, Kurtz and Jim, is a remarkable man concealing a guilty secret for reasons which are largely honourable, and like them he finds himself drawn into a false situation where the combined machinations of a rival and an agent of nemesis bring him to his death.
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© 1984 Stephen K. Land
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Land, S.K. (1984). The End of the Tether. In: Conrad and the Paradox of Plot. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07274-3_8
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