Despite Marlow's determination to boast of his experiences, it is perhaps most imperative to note that he honestly earned for himself a kind of "dark wisdom" in the Congo that was absent before his employment there (Graver 88), which is vital in giving full credit to the events that took place on that winding jungle river as life-changing forces in Marlow's life. ... New insight is soon to come though, and Lawrence Graver depicts it well in "Marlow's Evolving Awareness": "At first he moves quickly through the company offices in Brussels, his exuberance checked only by a slo...