Compare & contrast between Paul Morel & Jim (Lord Jim By Joseph Conrad)

Paul Morel is sensitive, temperamental, artistic (a painter), and unceasingly devoted to his mother. They are inseparable; he confides everything in her, works and paints to please her, and nurses her as she dies. Paul has ultimately unsuccessful romances with Miriam Leiver and Clara Dawes, always alternating between great love and hatred for each of them. His relationship fails with Miriam because she is too sacrificial and virginal to claim him as hers, whereas it fails with Clara because, it seems, she has never given up on her estranged husband. However, the major reason behind Paul's break-ups is the long shadow of his mother; no woman can ever equal her in his eyes, and he can never free himself from her possession.

Jim is a twenty-four-year-old British sailor with romantic aspirations, He is neat, often wears white, has blue eyes, and is generally popular. He is a part of the notorious Patna crew, and he spends the days after the official Inquiry trying to find a place where no one will know of the incident, and where he can begin again. Starting anew as a water-clerk, he leaps at the chance to achieve his heroic dreams in Patusan, but comes to a tragic end.