"Cliff Notes - Lord Jim" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)

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LORD JIM: THE THIRD ENGINEER (GEORGE)

Poor George surfaces just long enough to die of heart failure
during the Patna crisis. He's in bed when the ship is damaged,
and the other officers rouse him. Jim notes the irony of his
death: If he had been a little braver and not exhausted his
heart trying to get off the ship, he would have survived. When
Jim leaps into the lifeboat, the other officers mistake him for
George in the darkness, not realizing that George has died.

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LORD JIM: MONTAGUE BRIERLY

"Big Brierly" is a highly successful and conceited sea captain
who serves as one of the nautical assessors, or judges, at the
court of inquiry into the Patna incident. He seems like a man
who's enjoyed every possible stroke of good fortune. And yet he
kills himself shortly after he hears the case.

From what Marlow gathers, Brierly's suicide seems directly
related to his high opinion of himself. Brierly perceives that
few sailors ever have to confront the kind of moral test Jim has
faced (and failed) aboard the Patna. Apparently he becomes
obsessed with the anxiety that he would behave the same way.
After all, Brierly's life has consisted of one piece of luck
after another. What would happen if his luck ran out? Brierly,
it would seem, has never thought about that question, but once
he starts thinking about it he can't stop. He kills himself out
of fear of his own cowardice. He has based his opinion of
himself solely on externals--all the awards and honors and
praise he's received. He has no fundamental belief in himself,
nothing internal. When he starts questioning his worth, he has
no internal confidence with which to fight off doubts and the
doubts soon overwhelm him.

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LORD JIM: JONES

Jones is Brierly's chief mate at the time of his suicide. He
detests Brierly so much that he can hardly stand being civil to
him. After Brierly's death, though, he develops such reverence
for his former captain that he comes close to weeping when he
talks about him. His change of heart owes much to Brierly's
having recommended him as his successor in a letter written just
before he jumped overboard. Jones doesn't get the promotion,
but by the time Marlow speaks to him, some two years later, he's
taken charge of some other "nautical wreck."

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