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Write 2 page essay on the topic Response questions for Joseph Conrad’s *Nostromo*.

e very first action in the plot when Nostromo saves Don Ribiera to the climax where he is killed, Conrad features actions of Nostromo in a more prominent manner. Though the etymological roots of the name Nostromo imbue it with much relevance, yet, most of the Europeans in the novel do away with them to decide on the more mundane meaning of the Italian root words “nostro uomo” or “our man”, which serves the writer’s ironic intentions by imbuing the character of Nostromo with ample ambiguity and duplicity.

2.It is indeed true that in Nostromo, Conrad has contrived the plot such that the story component inherent in the plot stands independent of what one may call the actualized text. The phrases time and again used by many salient characters merely seem to be the hypothetical aspects of what to the real readers comes out as one indivisible whole. In that context the notion of “material interests” indeed stand out as a factual aberration because the hope and positivity that varied characters imbue in the notion of “material interests” in the narrative eventually comes out as a shallow understanding of the notion of ‘human nature’ evaluated in the overall storyline. Conrad amply conveys as to how the fixed idea of “material interests” supersedes the need for communion between the human characters presented in the narrative. The whole objective is to connote as to how people possessed by fixed ideas stand vulnerable and corruptible as the narrator says, “A man haunted by a fixed idea is insane… for may he not bring the heaven down pitilessly upon a loved head (Conrad 379).”

3.The thing that needs to be understood is that Nostromo is a novel primarily contrived in an ironic mode. What the writer s tried to do is place an understandable form over the complexities and confusions that dominate a regular, un-idealized life. The ploy of moving back and forth in the plot serves the purpose of ushering in an element of fluidity and to somehow