Hm, TMI.

Marlow goes detail CRAZY in this part of chapter 1. He tells of every single detail about a person he meets, sometimes (quite often) going a little overboard on the amount of description. However, I feel like this is significant in showing that he was greatly interesting and intrigued by the people he was meeting at the station. In the first half of the chapter, the center of the story revolved around gloom and darkness, often filling sentences with hose words exactly. While there was still evident gloom in this second part, I noticed a shift in the tone, from completely negative energy to an unknown energy, kind of like an adrenaline from being somewhere new. The emphasis on this second part of the chapter is now about the new people he meets and the descriptions of the place he is in.s

The descriptions of the station often come in rambling outbursts, along with other thoughts coming from Marlow's mind. Again, random and not vital information to the story is being told, but somehow this strikes me as significant in how insignificant it seems. His attention to detail has got to mean something in the long run or else the outburst of information would not have occurred.

Also, I find it ironic that after the journey he has taken so long to tell about that his boat sinks. After all that, wouldn't you think he would be SO angry? It seems strange and does not fit in with what I would expect, which also leads me to think these descriptions and fascination he has with the people he meets must be significant to the story.