What is the author's style in Nostromo by Joseph Conrad?

Nostromo is told as a third person omniscient narrative. Scenes are crafted through the perspectives of various characters, and often the same scene is replayed through the different points of view. This allows the reader to get multiple perspectives on an event. Seeing the same event from different class perspectives reinforces the thematic message of the novel.

In some ways, this narrative voice resembles an historian or travel guide for Central America. The narrator often concentrates on physical features of the landscape as closely as the thoughts of the characters. The narrator gives extensive historical and geographic information about the area, allowing the setting to almost become a character in itself. In doing so, the landscape takes on the same perspective as the narrative voice because it treats all the other characters equally despite their wealth or power.