"I had no difficulty in finding the Company's offices. It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade."
This line gives a significant impression to me because it does not just directly speak of power of the company, but it is, as well, referring to the power that Europeans possess in their hands. "The biggest thing in the town" could be portrayed as the mother country of London and that colonialism will "run an over-sea empire," which is Africa. Europeans were inspired in a mad pursuit of riches regardless to the outcome on the indigenous people and regions. The description by Marlow about the structure of the home offices and the city in general can be interpreted as a metaphor to imply excess riches. By implying that "everybody I met was full of it," Marlow tries to condemn the Europeans that every common man will at least have riches in the big city in order to expand their empire in obtaining goods.
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