This particular section (page 21-end of Part I) focuses on Marlow going to meet Kurtz (who is said to be a sick man), but his boat gets damaged. The manager of the Central Station said that they took Marlow’s boat out and damaged the bottom out the boat by tearing it on some rocks. Marlow suspects that they may have did this on purpose in order to keep him from seeing and meeting with Mr. Kurtz. It is taking Marlow many months to fix this boat.
The rivets to fix the damaged boat do not end up coming, but the Eldorado Expedition does come to find the treasure. Marlow gives up on trying to receive the rivets to fix the boat and now has different thoughts about meeting with Mr. Kurtz after talking to the brickmaker. The brickmaker says, “He is a prodigy…He is an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and devil knows what else. We want…for the guidance of the cause entrusted to us by Europe, so to speak, higher intelligence, wide sympathies, a singleness of purpose” (Conrad, 25). I think the brickmaker has turned Marlow’s views of Mr. Kurtz to an "iffy-type" (not totally negative) view of him, however, Marlow still does want to meet with Mr. Kurtz. The brickmaker also adds that there are going to be some opportunities cancelled because of Mr. Kurtz being the General Manager. The brickmaker wanted to be the assistant manager, but because of Mr. Kurtz being the General Manger, his chances have decreased.
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