The mystically ensorcelling power of the silver, a symbol for all human desires, is much in evidence here. As elsewhere, the dream-ideal is portrayed as an active, living agent: it "fastens upon a man's mind" (compare Charles Gould being "decoyed" by the mine ). Note that the gringos of Azuera are "sailors like myself"; Nostromo too will die and yet live on over the treasure, in Linda's cry of "undying passion" that closes the novel.