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Stephen Crane

Steven Crane

Steven Crane : How his excellent setting and character description along with the

physical, emotional, and intellectual responses of people under extreme pressure and the

betrayal and guilt he shows for his characters helps the reader to better understand his

works.



Steven Crane is not one of the most liked authors in the world. He tends to

become to engulfed in the scenery around the action that is taking place rather than the

action itself. Readers do not always follow and sometimes become lost in the scenery

instead of the action. Details are very important for the readers because if the reader can

not see the same thing that the writer sees then the reader might lose interest in the story.

Crane does not mean for this to happen. He is only trying to help the reader better

understand what is going on.

In the story "The Blue Hotel," and in his poem " Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War

is Kind," Crane uses his excellent setting and character description along with the physical,

emotional, and intellectual responses of people under extreme pressure and the betrayal

and guilt he shows between the characters to help the reader better understand the story or

poem. Crane shows these characteristics in almost everything he writes.

In "The Blue Hotel," Crane does an excellent job of describing the setting to you

in every way possible. For example in the beginning of the story "The Blue Hotel," he says

that "the hotel was painted a light blue, a shade that is on the legs of a kind of heron,

causing the bird to declare its position against any background." He does this type of

depiction on every single thing he describes. Then in paragraph three he says "A little

Irishman wore a heavy fur cap squeezed tightly down on his head. It caused his two red

ears to stick out stiffly, as if they were made of tin." All of that for a guy he just passed

along the street on the way to the hotel. In the end Crane even goes into an in depth

description...