of a snake is supposed to symbolize evil or danger, Marlow is clearly struck by the idea of being part of barter on a steamboat up that huge river, and says that "...the snake had charmed me." Not a cobra snake being charmed as it rises up out of a basket in India, but an idea that was generated by an advertisement in a store window.
             Descriptions - of natives in particular - are so very crucial to the flow of this novella. While initially approaching the Central Station, Marlow goes to great lengths to describe t
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