How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"What thoughts passed through his head – what memories? Who can tell. Everything was gone, and he who had been once unfaithful to his trust had lost again all men's confidence." (45.4)
The aftermath of Dain Waris's death is majorly traumatic for our poor Jim. He goes into a state of shock and then walks into his own death. And in a rare moment of what we'll call narrative humility, Marlow finally admits that he can't know what was really going on in Jim's head at this moment. His best guess, though, is that Jim might have recalled another time when he had lost "all men's confidence" – the incident on the Patna.