Read the passage. in "heart of darkness," marlow, the protagonist, narrates the tale of his voyage up the congo river into the heart of africa. on that journey, marlow experiences the brutality of the company toward the natives and is left to wrestle with the hypocrisy and evils of imperialism. excerpt from heart of darkness by joseph conrad how does the inclusion of a long paragraph at the beginning of this passage affect the reader’s interpretation of the text? a.) it presents the narrator’s extensive background to explain why he finds his journey so difficult to undertake. b.) it shows the reader how the narrator’s mood is changeable like the foreign rivers that he travels. c.)it the reader become immersed in the narrator’s experience through the use of an uninterrupted description. d.) it repeats a single idea to demonstrate the narrator’s confused and dangerous state of mind.