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

Cornelius, then on Jim, she's nonetheless spirited and
resourceful. She saves Jim from Sherif Ali's assassins. Later,
when Brown's men invade and Jim is away, she proves herself a
natural leader of the community. But her judicious call for
strong action against the invaders is thwarted by Doramin's
over-cautiousness.

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LORD JIM: CORNELIUS

Cornelius, a Malayan-born Portuguese, lives in Patusan as
Stein's thoroughly incompetent trade representative before Jim
is appointed to the post. He got the job only through Stein's
regard for his wife, who was pregnant by another man and needed
a refuge. Cornelius never forgives his wife, and he never
forgives her daughter, Jewel. Marlow dislikes Cornelius so much
that his descriptions are almost funny in their disgust. One
scathing adjective follows another. Cornelius even moves like
some kind of vermin, "skulking" or "slinking" or sidling." The
only thing that keeps him from being really dangerous is his
cowardice. It takes Brown to give Cornelius' malice some
teeth.

Cornelius despises Jim, presumably because Jim has replaced him.
But there's something deeper in his hatred--the natural
animosity (like Brown's) of a low creature for a superior one.
He assists Sherif Ali's plot to assassinate Jim, but doesn't get
punished for it. (Jim spares him out of deference to his
position as Jewel's "father.") He ingratiates himself with
Brown's men, he pleads with Brown to kill Jim, and he leads the
invaders to the position from which they stage their sneak
attack on Dain Waris and his men. Tamb' Itam stabs him to death
in retaliation for his part in the massacre, and so he never has
the satisfaction of seeing his treachery lead to Jim's ruin.

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LORD JIM: THE PRIVILEGED MAN

Marlow's spoken account ends at Chapter Thirty-five. Chapters
Thirty-six through Forty-five comprise a written addendum that
Marlow sends, more than two years later, to one of his original
listeners. This "privileged man" (privileged because he's the
only member of that audience to learn the rest of Jim's story)
is never named. He seems to be elderly ("his wandering days
were over"), and the city he lives in forms a geographical
contrast to the remote village he'll be reading about. The
privileged man's outlook is racist, in that he has criticized
Jim for deserting his own culture to live among a people he
likens to brutes.