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Term Paper Title	Blue Hotel
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Blue Hotel

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English 102

            Stephen Crane is a wellknown author of variety of short stories.  His short stories anticipate the ironic realism of the decades ahead.  In his brief and energetic life, he published fourteen books while acting out, in his personal adventures, the legend of the writer as soldier of fortune.  The short story "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane shows how people’s perceptions of things are not always what they really are.  Death is an occurring theme throughout the story.  The drab, colorless background with "The Blue Hotel" standing awkwardly right in the middle of the snow.

            From the moment that the Swede arrived at the Blue Hotel he felt uneasy about staying at the hotel.  In his mind he transformed the Blue Hotel into a wild west hotel, from all of  the many dime novels he has read.  In one of the initial scenes this fear is evident "The Swede answered him swiftly and eagerly: ‘These men are going to kill me.’….  ‘I know I won’t get out of here alive’"(115).  The Swede’s fear of dying had made him want to leave the hotel, but Pat Scully, the owner of the Blue Hotel, attempted to get him to stay by giving him a tour of the hotel and showing him pictures of his family.  Scully shows the Swede some pictures of his children, "That’s the pitcher of my little girl that died.  Her name was Carrie.  She had the purtiest hair you ever saw!  I was that fond of her, she"(117).

            Crane’s use of color in the episode helps to point out the pattern of death.  Scully and the Swede first walk into a dark room and while Scully speaks of his deceased daughter the Swede focuses on the shadows in the darker part of the room. The Swede fears everything in the hotel, so Scully offers him some whiskey to calm him down, which of course the Swede believes is poisoned.  After Skully proves to the Swede that the whiskey is fine the Swede take a drink. The whiskey Skully gives the Swede loosens him up some; the Swede begins to drink more and more. Soon there a...

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