He helps the town get rid of thieves and protects the Violas (i.e., the family he lives with), and he's instrumental in helping to get Don Vincente out of Costaguana before the rebel forces can seize him. for short) group of lightermen and caretaker of the Sulaco jetty, Nostromo is basically everyone's go-to guy. An Italian sailor who became the foreman of the Oceanic Steam and Navigation (O.S.N. Not to worry, though-Nostromo definitely plays an important role in the novel's events.
You might be wondering where our title character has been in all this.
Basically, immediately after the Goulds help maneuver Don Vincente Ribiera into the position of President/Dictator, rebel forces (led by General Montero, who had previously served as Ribiera's Minister of War) start agitating to overthrow him, and war breaks out. However, Charles's hopes regarding encouraging peace and prosperity don't really work out-boo.
When the mine becomes a success, the Goulds grow ridiculously powerful and influential in Costaguana politics-yay. So, he hauls his bride-to-be back to the coastal town of Sulaco and gets to work. An Englishman who was born in this fictional territory, Gould decides that he's going to make the mine productive (which his father was never able to do) and use the mine to bring stability and peace to his war-happy birthplace. The story proper really begins with Charles Gould's decision to take over his father's silver mine in Costaguana. That being said, we'll lay out the novel's events for you in more or less linear form, because we're total sweethearts like that. It takes a couple of chapters for a clear set of plot points to emerge, and even then, there's a ton of jumping around.
By opening the novel this way, Conrad may be trying to give us a hint that this isn't the most plot-driven story in the universe. There are no characters in this chapter, and we get no firm idea of when in time this description comes from. The novel opens with simple description of the landscape of Costaguana (which we can only assume translates to "The Coast of The Iguanas," right?), the fictional nation in which events take place.
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