Lord Jim

by

Joseph Conrad

Jewel (who is often simply called “the girl”) is the part-white, part-Malay stepdaughter of Cornelius and the eventual wife of Jim. Jewel seems to be a nickname, signifying the immense value she has to Jim—but also perhaps the way he makes her a treasure in his fantastical adventures he constructs in his mind. Cornelius treats Jewel cruelly ( he was equally cruel to his late wife, Jewel’s mother), and this motivates Jim to try to save Jewel. Ultimately, Jim’s interest in Jewel sets off a chain of events that leads to Cornelius helping Gentleman Brown to betray Jim. At the end of the story, Jim chooses to sacrifice his own life for an abstract ideal rather than listening to the advice of his loving wife. Thus, Jewel embodies everything a romantic like Jim seek—but also what he’s willing to leave behind to chase his abstract ideals about honor.

Jewel Quotes in Lord Jim

The Lord Jim quotes below are all either spoken by Jewel or refer to Jewel. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Fantasy vs. Reality Theme Icon
).
Chapter 28 Quotes

‘Next day, talking casually with the people of the little native court of the place, I discovered that a story was travelling slowly down the coast about a mysterious white man in Patusan who had got hold of an extraordinary gem—namely, an emerald of an enormous size, and altogether priceless.’

Related Characters: Marlow (speaker), Jim, Jewel, Cornelius
Related Symbols: Patusan
Page Number: 212
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Chapter 29 Quotes

‘This was the theory of Jim’s marital evening walks. I made a third on more than one occasion, unpleasantly aware every time of Cornelius, who nursed the aggrieved sense of his legal paternity, slinking in the neighbourhood with that peculiar twist of his mouth as if he were perpetually on the point of gnashing his teeth.’

Related Characters: Marlow (speaker), Jim, Jewel, Cornelius
Related Symbols: Patusan
Page Number: 1
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Chapter 33 Quotes

‘Why did I come, then? After a slight movement she was as still as a marble statue in the night. I tried to explain briefly: friendship, business; if I had any wish in the matter it was rather to see him stay. . . . “They always leave us,” she murmured. The breath of sad wisdom from the grave which her piety wreathed with flowers seemed to pass in a faint sigh. . . . Nothing, I said, could separate Jim from her.’

Related Characters: Marlow (speaker), Jewel (speaker), Jim
Related Symbols: Patusan, The Patna
Page Number: 235
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Chapter 45 Quotes

‘Who knows? He is gone, inscrutable at heart, and the poor girl is leading a sort of soundless, inert life in Stein’s house. Stein has aged greatly of late. He feels it himself, and says often that he is “preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave . . .” while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies.’

September 1899—July 1900.

Related Characters: Marlow (speaker), Jim, Doramin, Dain Waris, Stein, Gentleman Brown, Jewel, The Privileged Reader
Related Symbols: Patusan, Butterflies, The Patna
Page Number: 318
Explanation and Analysis:
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Jewel Quotes in Lord Jim

The Lord Jim quotes below are all either spoken by Jewel or refer to Jewel. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Fantasy vs. Reality Theme Icon
).
Chapter 28 Quotes

‘Next day, talking casually with the people of the little native court of the place, I discovered that a story was travelling slowly down the coast about a mysterious white man in Patusan who had got hold of an extraordinary gem—namely, an emerald of an enormous size, and altogether priceless.’

Related Characters: Marlow (speaker), Jim, Jewel, Cornelius
Related Symbols: Patusan
Page Number: 212
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 29 Quotes

‘This was the theory of Jim’s marital evening walks. I made a third on more than one occasion, unpleasantly aware every time of Cornelius, who nursed the aggrieved sense of his legal paternity, slinking in the neighbourhood with that peculiar twist of his mouth as if he were perpetually on the point of gnashing his teeth.’

Related Characters: Marlow (speaker), Jim, Jewel, Cornelius
Related Symbols: Patusan
Page Number: 1
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 33 Quotes

‘Why did I come, then? After a slight movement she was as still as a marble statue in the night. I tried to explain briefly: friendship, business; if I had any wish in the matter it was rather to see him stay. . . . “They always leave us,” she murmured. The breath of sad wisdom from the grave which her piety wreathed with flowers seemed to pass in a faint sigh. . . . Nothing, I said, could separate Jim from her.’

Related Characters: Marlow (speaker), Jewel (speaker), Jim
Related Symbols: Patusan, The Patna
Page Number: 235
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 45 Quotes

‘Who knows? He is gone, inscrutable at heart, and the poor girl is leading a sort of soundless, inert life in Stein’s house. Stein has aged greatly of late. He feels it himself, and says often that he is “preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave . . .” while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies.’

September 1899—July 1900.

Related Characters: Marlow (speaker), Jim, Doramin, Dain Waris, Stein, Gentleman Brown, Jewel, The Privileged Reader
Related Symbols: Patusan, Butterflies, The Patna
Page Number: 318
Explanation and Analysis: