Question

Read the following passage from Heart of Darkness and then answer the question. "I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew." What is the BEST paraphrase of this passage?A.Marlow is delighted to be back in his homeland, facing only relatively silly concerns.B.Marlow is relieved that he has returned from his journey safely and mostly unaffected.C.Marlow, upon returning home, realizes that he can never amass the success there that he could if he followed Kurtz's path.D.Marlow, back in the city, finds the daily lives and concerns of his fellow citizens to be petty.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Marlow, back in the city, finds the daily lives and concerns of his fellow citizens to be petty.

Explanation:

Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" centers around the character of Marlow who had gone to the African continent to meet Kurtz. This whole plot revolves around the occurrences of the journey.

The above passage is from the third part of the book where Marlow had returned back to Europe. He had no clear memory of how he got back but he is also not appreciative of the European people and their worries. He exclaims that this city looks like a tombstone, filled with "people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams". To him, their daily lives and concerns are so petty as compared to the things he had experienced and seen with his very own eyes.