![]() ![]() He recalls that Brierly's last words were for him to lock up the dog Rover, so that Rover wouldn't jump in after him. Jonesīrierly's chief mate, Jones is present when he leaps to his death in the sea. He mysteriously commits suicide, causing Marlow to conjecture that the man glimpsed something less than noble about himself during Jim's testimony. He is also one of the assessors of the Patna incident during the official Inquiry. The thirty-two-year-old commander of the Ossa, the crack ship of the Blue Star line, Brierly is a success. MarlowĪ British sea captain who attends the official Inquiry and becomes interested in Jim's fate, Marlow lends Jim a helping hand and narrates Jim's story. German captainĬaptain of the steamship Patna and one of the men with Jim in the lifeboat, the captain is a boorish, obese man who disappears before the official Inquiry. Starting anew as a water-clerk, he leaps at the chance to achieve his heroic dreams in Patusan, but comes to a tragic end. ![]() He is a part of the notorious Patna crew, and he spends the days after the official Inquiry trying to find a place where no one will know of the incident, and where he can begin again. A twenty-four-year-old British sailor with romantic aspirations, Jim is neat, often wears white, has blue eyes, and is generally popular. ![]()
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