Chester is an excitable Australian man who believes he’s found a get-rich-quick scheme with a guano island (guano refers to the excrement of seabirds and bats for use as fertilizer), and he urges Marlow to invite Jim to join this guano expedition. Marlow refuses, Chester goes ahead without Jim, getting himself and his whole crew killed in a hurricane. Chester represents the arrogance and greed of white men in Asia, as well as the potential consequences of following this greed.
Chester Quotes in Lord Jim
The Lord Jim quotes below are all either spoken by Chester or refer to Chester. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 14
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‘I said nothing. I had a rapid vision of Jim perched on a shadowless rock, up to his knees in guano, with the screams of sea-birds in his ears, the incandescent ball of the sun above his head; the empty sky and the empty ocean all a-quiver, simmering together in the heat as far as the eye could reach. “I wouldn’t advise my worst enemy . . .” I began.’
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Chester Quotes in Lord Jim
The Lord Jim quotes below are all either spoken by Chester or refer to Chester. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 14
Quotes
‘I said nothing. I had a rapid vision of Jim perched on a shadowless rock, up to his knees in guano, with the screams of sea-birds in his ears, the incandescent ball of the sun above his head; the empty sky and the empty ocean all a-quiver, simmering together in the heat as far as the eye could reach. “I wouldn’t advise my worst enemy . . .” I began.’
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