Heart of Darkness is a story I would not suggest anyone to read unless you take the time and effort to understand Joseph Conrad, the writer. I found the story to be a bit confusing. When I finished reading it, I realized that the story was a story within a story. The anonymous narrator was actually one of the men on the ship, Nellie, listening to Marlow telling his story. The story actually takes place on the boat on the Thames River.
             The story began in the boat and Marlow begins telling the three men about a time he journeyed in a steamboat up the Congo River. He explained his story about his experiences and things that he encountered. Marlow leaves the Outer Station on a 200-mile trek across Africa, and eventually reaches the Company's Central Station, where he learns that the steamboat he is supposed to pilot up the Congo was wrecked at the bottom of the river. He then waits at the central station till the boat is fixed.
             One night at the station he over hears the manager talking about Kurtz and seemed to be interested about Kurtz. The manager hopes that the jungles will take Kurtz. That when you first gather his interest in Kurtz. The boat is fixed and Marlow starts his fifty-mile trek to the inner station and on his way his boat is being attacked. He finally reaches the Inner Station and thinks that Kurtz was attacked by the same natives and presumes Kurtz is dead. He is relieved to find out that Kurtz is ok and that the natives that were attacking him were actually protecting Kurtz.
             Marlow, his crew, and Kurtz leave the Inner Station. As they leave the Inner station Kurtz becomes sick and dies. Marlow then returns to Europe and is in search of Kurtz's fiancée. He finally sees her and tells her that his last words were her name. In actuality his last words were "The horror, the horror." (Conrad 394). She believed him and knew that Kurtz would say that. Marlow is upset that he lied ...