Of course, if we analysed the story as a sort of allegory for imperialism, we would have no choice but to conclude that the story represents an example of ‘tall poppy syndrome’ – where an arrogant person is cut down to size. The story might be viewed as a warning about the dangers of colonialism, with Nunez thinking himself superior to the blind because he comes from mainstream ‘civilisation’ and they do not have the same knowledge and view of the world as he does.
Like all of Wells’s best fiction, ‘The Country of the Blind’ is packed full with symbolic meaning, but it’s not easy to see what meaning or interpretation we are supposed to take from it. The story ends with him lying ‘peacefully contented’ under the stars when night comes. So he leaves the village and begins the long climb up the mountains so that he might escape the Country of the Blind and get back to Bogota and civilisation. He agrees to this reluctantly, but when the day arrives for the operation to be carried out, he finds he cannot go through with it, so much does his sight mean to him.
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