Conrad is considered an early modernist, even though his works contain elements of the 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, appear to have anticipated later world events.
"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan" ,the equivalent of "Lord" or "Sir", who is travelling through an Indonesian rainforest and is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay friend named Arsat. Upon arriving, he finds Arsat worried, because his lover is dying. Arsat tells the distant and rather silent white man a story of his past.
For the excerpt present on the question, and the information I have just presented about the story, it is quite obvious to assert that the effect of the story within a story in Joseph Conrad’s “The Lagoon” is that:
It tells Arsat’s story and gives insights into his feelings.
