At his first stop in the Congo, the Outer Station, he witnesses that the Company has forced the locals into service, whereupon they are overworked and brutalized in the name of profit. He passes a medical exam and is soon dispatched on a ship to the Congo.Īlong the way, he begins to discover the bureaucracy and the violence of the colonial endeavor. From London, he travels to an unnamed Belgian city and interviews his employers.
Through his aunt he is awarded a job working for the Company, a Belgian colonial firm that trades in ivory in Africa. As the sun sets, Marlow becomes introspective and begins to reminisce about the time when, struggling to find work, he decides to take a job on a steamboat in the Congo. The novel is structured as a story Marlow tells his friends onboard a boat on the Thames.
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