Marlow,+Work,+and+Rivets

Marlow's attitude towards work: -likes to occupy himself with labor with a goal in mind -looks down on the languor and indifference of the men at the station for many years -wonders at how the brickmaker can be sitting in his hut not doing anything for a year without any achievable goal in sight -contemptous of materialism, attributes value to hard work -though others look down on the boilermaker, Marlow thinks he is a "good worker"

rivets: -emotionally invested in achieving the goal of fixing the boat -rivets are an obstacle and Marlow is motivated to overcome this -the hindrance of the boat construction is not internalized to Marlow, but rather the external factor of the rivets not arriving

attitude of others at the station: "I saw this station, these men strolling aimlessly about...like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence" (26) "but as to effectually lifting a little finger-oh no" (27)

quotes from marlow: "I went to work the next day...In that way only it seemed to me I could keep my hold on the redeeming facts of life" (26) "to get on with the work...Rivets I wanted"