The main theme of the story is isolation. The sea captain in particular feels alone and alienated in the middle of a far-away body of water with a crew he ...

The Secret Sharer" begins with the anonymous narrator — the recently appointed captain of an unnamed ship — anchored in the Gulf of Siam (what is now called ...

"The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909 and first published in two parts in the August and ...

Oct 7, 2022 ... Analysis of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer ... The story is generally accepted as Conrad's rewriting of a killing, subsequent escape, and ...

A Critical Analysis. 'The Secret Sharer' is a compelling short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1909. It was first published in 'Harper's Magazine' in 1910 ...

The story begins with an insecure narrator assuming his first command on a ship in the Gulf of Siam. The crew is older and more experienced than he is.

Footnotes. 1 . 'The secret sharer' in Twixt Land and Sea (London: Dent, 1947), p. 101. 2 . Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology (London: Allen Lane, ...

It can refer to both Leggatt, the sailor who flees his own ship and comes aboard the Captain's ship one night, and the clandestine relationship between the ...