"I was on the point of crying at her, 'Don’t you hear them?' The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. 'The horror! The horror!'..."'The last word he pronounced was—your name.'" (Conrad 163-164).
After finishing the end of the novel, I was surprised to see how much Marlow has changed throughout his journey to the central station to see Kurtz. After Kurtz dies, Marlow goes back to England and sees Kurtz's lover. HE believes that she should have the last of Kurtz's remains, the papers that Kurtz gave to Marlow on the boat so the manager would not have them. When visiting with Kurtz's lover, the two talk of his last words. Marlow lies to the woman, telling her that Kurtz said her last name as he was dying when in fact, he whispered, "The horror! The horror!" Marlow lies to the woman because he did not want to hurt her any more, and he believed that the truth was too dark for her to hear.
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