This cargador will finally die in Chapter 3-4, at a symbolic moment that equates his death with the death of material progress as a moral force. His widow will later be visited by Nostromo in Chapter 3-12, where the symbolism of the "New Era" is repeated. The cargador thus represents the allegiance of the workers to a moral vision of material progress, an allegiance now in its last moments. He is an allegorical echo of Nostromo, whom we have just seen "satiated" with the rewards of fidelity, hinting at his coming revolt. Later Nostromo will make a deathbed "confession" similar to the cargador's.