Character Analysis of Lord Jim Throughout all of Conrad’s writings there has never been one character which stood out the most like Jim, in Lord Jim. Jim is a person destined to be a hero, but too shy and scared to be considered one. When reading the opening paragraph, one would be led to believe that Jim is a great man destined for fame. From his appearance he would scare many with his great …showed first 75 words of 1066 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1066 total…haunts him for the rest of his life until his heroic death which makes him a tragic character in Lord Jim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Berthoud, Jacques. Joseph Conrad: The Major Phase. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. New York: Buccaneer Books, 1987. DiMauro, Laurie. Twentieth-Century Literacy Criticism. Detroit: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Mudrick, Marvin. Conrad: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966. Stapleton, Michael. The Cambridge Guide to English Literature. Detroit, Cambridge University Press, 1992.