-Marlow's vivid imagery clearly paints a mental picture in the reader's head. The reader gets a clear description of a blinding white fog covering the sky. What is interesting about this picture is the fact that usually fog darkens the sky, and a bright sun with no clouds is very blinding. This light closely relates to the perception of whites and blacks. At that time, people believed that whites were good and blacks were "bad." In this case, Marlow flips the circumstances. Marlow has alluded to this notion that the savages of Africa are good people, and his statement, though a metaphor, proves that he believes the Africans can be good, and what the Europeans are doing is bad.
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