# The Narrator — The Shadow Line character guide

> The Narrator in The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Unknown, myself, me, I

**First appearance:** 0004-the-shadow-line

## Who they are

The unnamed first-person narrator, a young ship's captain recounting his first command.

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