“The Lagoon,” by Joseph Conrad, follows the story of a white man that is referred to as “Tuan,” visiting his friend “Arsat” in the Malayan Archipelago. The story exists as one of the earliest examples of the literary world’s slow nudge into the modern fictional literary movement. The short story earns its place in that category because of its use of the same characteristics found in modern fiction today. Those same characteristics cc an be found with some analysis of his short story. The Lagoon contains