Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der goldene Pfeil
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You will enjoy this if you love sea adventures, secret plots and old Marseilles, or a love story told by a man looking back on his youth with a clear and honest memory.
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What does a young man risk for a woman who says she does not exist? On the last night of Carnival in Marseilles, a restless sailor meets two strangers and hears a story that changes his life. The Arrow of Gold, by Joseph Conrad, is a tale of gunrunning, royal plots and first love. It follows a nineteenth century sailor, nicknamed Monsieur George, as he is drawn toward Doña Rita.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A Carnival night draws a young man inFree
- 2Two men sketch a woman before he sees her
- 3Doña Rita steps into the room
- 4Smugglers, a sailing boat and a limp hand
- 5A goatherd girl and her formidable sister
- 6Love turns into torment
- 7A lunch with the mother of Captain Blunt
- 8Rose warns him about Rita's loneliness
- 9What the story is really about
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A Carnival night draws a young man in
The story opens in Marseilles, on the last evening of Carnival, in a bright cafe on the Cannebière. The narrator is very young, just back from his second voyage to the West Indies, and his friends in the artists' circle call him Young Ulysses. He is bored and a little lonely, and he has been hoping to meet a quiet Englishman named Mills.
Mills arrives with a friend, Captain Blunt, a slim and perfectly dressed officer in the cavalry of Don Carlos, the pretender fighting for the Spanish throne. Blunt is an American from South Carolina, and he declares that he lives by his sword. Mills tells the tale of his shipwreck on the French coast while carrying arms to the Carlists, chased there by a Republican ironclad.
The wreck still holds rifles and cartridges. Mills needs the French customs men to look away, and he says a woman in Marseilles can arrange it. The narrator, thrilled to be among such men, follows them home through the windy night.
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Questions about Der goldene Pfeil
What is The Arrow of Gold about?
It follows a young sailor in Marseilles who joins a plot to smuggle arms to the Carlists and falls in love with Doña Rita, the heiress of a painter. The love story and the smuggling plot run side by side.
What does the arrow of gold mean in the book?
It is a jeweled ornament Rita wears in her hair. To the narrator it becomes a symbol of her and of the love he cannot grasp, and it returns in his dreams and in the closing scenes.
Who are the Carlists in The Arrow of Gold?
They are supporters of Don Carlos de Bourbon, who took up arms in northern Spain in the 1870s to claim the throne. The novel follows the people who supply them with guns from the French coast.
Is The Arrow of Gold based on a true story?
The story follows a young man against the background of the Carlist struggle for the Spanish throne.
Who is Monsieur George?
He is the young narrator and the central figure. The name is a nickname used in the Carlist circle, and it hides his true identity while he moves between the harbor and the drawing room.