Conrad's secrets shared: narrative suppression and dream distortion in "The Secret Sharer"

Criticism of Joseph Conrad's "The veiled Sharer" has come a drawn out way from Frederick Karl's 1960 assertion that this tale is individual of Conrad's "most straightforward and obvious works. Its narrative is a design of clarity" (233). Indeed, forty-three years later we have the appearance to be overwhelmed by the complexities of Conrad's brief tale: progres is minimal and disagreement abounds, as article after article aims with the same questions. by what means does the concept of the double function? Does the captain mature? for what cause [i]or[/i] reason must he ultimately shave the land in the way that closely? Is Legatt's "visit" salutary? Is Leggatt himself devil or angel, killer ...