# What Modernity vs. Tradition means in Nostromo

> The clash between old Spanish colonial ways and the encroaching forces of industrialization, railways, and foreign investment is depicted through the transformation of Sulaco and its people.

## Explanation

The clash between old Spanish colonial ways and the encroaching forces of industrialization, railways, and foreign investment is depicted through the transformation of Sulaco and its people.

The railway and foreign investment clash with the conservative, isolationist attitudes of Sulaco's old Spanish families.

Modernity vs. Tradition is one of the patterns Nostromo by Joseph Conrad returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.

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