The Secret Sharer Analysis

Conrad's descriptions of the setting in this book all point to one major theme: isolation. From the very first paragraph, we realize that the narrator is far from home on a boat full of strangers....

We can tell right away that the narrator of this story is going to be first-person. But it's not until midway through the plot that we realize how he's specifically telling us his story. At first,...

In some ways, "The Secret Sharer" looks a lot like conventional realism. But what makes it especially modernist is the way Conrad constantly plays with the line between fact and fiction. For starte...

The narrator of this book is the new kid on a ship full of men who've known each other a long time (not to mention he's the captain), so it's understandable that his tone would contain its fair sha...

Joseph Conrad wrote "The Secret Sharer" at a time when film was on the verge of taking over popular culture. And you can see just how much he tries to recreate the experience of film by helping us...

When Conrad first published this story, he called it "The Secret-Sharer." It was only later that he removed the hyphen. You can see how this tiny little piece of punctuation would change the meanin...

"I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left behind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and my of thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered hims...

Reading Conrad is no walk in the park. In this story he grapples with some pretty heavy philosophical and abstract topics, like the destabilizing effects of social isolation, the pressures of socie...

There's this unnamed guy who's only been captain of a ship for two weeks. He's sailing along the coast of Siam (or present-day Thailand) and feeling lonely because his crew is really tight-knit and...

Anticipation Stage and "Fall" Into the Other WorldThe narrator opens this book by explaining how he feels lonely and unsure of himself as the new captain of a ship. He doesn't quite know what he's...

We meet the book's narrator, an unnamed captain who's only been in charge of his own ship for two weeks. His crew is a tight-knit group and he has a difficult time getting accepted into their fold....

Like the unnamed captain in "The Secret Sharer," Joseph Conrad also became captain of a ship in weird circumstances. He took over a ship after the previous captain had died, and like the...

You might see the occasional fogbank in this sea-based novel, but you won't find anything even close to "steam," if you catch our drift.

Book of Exodus (reference to Sephora) (1.9)