This dawn is reminiscent of the "gloomy, clouded dawn" that ended Part II , and like that one heralds the birth of socialism in threatening and even violent imagery. "The liberated Sulaco" has a grimly ironic ring alongside the "hateful and immense" San Tomé mine of the next paragraph, and also alongside Nostromo's enslavement to the silver. The "gulf as grey as ashes" adds to the sense of a barren future being born, and continues the symbolism of the gulf as subjective isolation, suggesting that the tremendous upheaval undergone by Nostromo (allegorically, the People) has not been perceived at all by the greater society.