HOD Analysis for Essay

As much as we like Marlow, it seems that the guy is something of a chauvinist. Twice in the novel, he mentions women and always sees them as somehow divorced from reality, as living in another world. To him, women are naive and idealistic, but he seems to want them to stay that way. For example, he lies to the Kurtz's fiance about Kurtz’s final words. To some extent, this behavior is a chivalrous attempt to protect women from the brutal realities of the world like slavery and imperialism.