# Lord Jim — Character guide

> Key figures in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

- [Jim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/jim.md): Jim arrives in Conrad's narrative as a promising young officer whose instinctive leap from a foundering ship brands him with a shame he cannot outrun. He carries an almost unbearable sensitivity to that failure, and it i
- [Marlow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/marlow.md): Marlow meets Jim at a harbor inquiry and finds himself drawn into the younger man's predicament with a sympathy that unsettles him. He is the reader's guide through the novel's moral fog, admitting his own bafflement eve
- [Gentleman Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/brown.md): Brown is a marauder worn thin by ill-luck, starvation, and the recklessness of a man who no longer cares where he runs. He possesses a satanic gift for finding the weakest spot in his victims, and in Jim he detects a man
- [Stein](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/stein.md): Stein is a man of learning and quiet authority whose own past adventures have left him with a generous, almost philosophical view of human frailty. He recognizes in Jim a romantic—one of those imaginative people who swin
- [Cornelius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/cornelius.md): Cornelius is the respectable face of petty resentment, a man whose legal paternity of Jewel gives him a claim he uses only to poison and obstruct. He moves through Patusan's margins with a peculiar twist of his mouth, ag
- [Jewel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/jewel.md): Jewel is the daughter of Cornelius and a Malay woman, raised in Patusan's isolation and bound to Jim by a love that is fierce, possessive, and shadowed by fear. Her tenderness hovers over him like a flutter of wings, and
- [Doramin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/doramin.md): Doramin rules the Bugis settlers of Patusan from a chair that seems less furniture than throne, issuing orders in a deep veiled rumble while lesser chiefs panic around him. Jim speaks to him alone before all others, trus
- [Dain Waris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/dain_waris.md): Dain Waris is the young Bugis leader whose decisive action against Brown's intruders prevents the town from being burned and its people shot down in their streets. He moves in the same tight circle as Jim, a son to Doram
- [Tamb' Itam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/tamb_itam.md): Tamb' Itam attached himself to Jim after escaping Rajah Allang's service, and his devotion runs to something excessive, almost fanatical, like a shadow that will not be shaken. He treads on his master's heels at state oc
- [Tunku Allang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/tunku_allang.md): Old Tunku Allang sits enthroned behind an improvised stockade, almost out of his mind with fear and indecision, abusing his visitors for daring to come with empty hands while Doramin's Bugis quietly hold the real power. 
- [Kassim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/kassim.md): Kassim is the kind of operator who survives by being indispensable to everyone and loyal to no one, the man whose quiet arrangements keep Brown's starving band supplied with the few yams and bananas that stave off collap
- [Brierly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/brierly.md): A successful sea captain who serves on the inquiry into Jim's Patna case.
- [Chester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/chester.md): A cynical old seaman who proposes a shady business scheme to Jim.
- [Captain Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/captain_robinson.md): A disreputable old sea captain associated with Chester's scheme.
- [Sherif Ali](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/sherif_ali.md): A fanatical Arab leader who challenges Doramin's rule in Patusan.
- [Egström](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_jim_se/characters/egstrom.md): A ship-chandler who helps Jim find work after the Patna affair.

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