The Blue Hotel (Annotated)

Stephen Crane's The Blue Hotel is a compact yet profound tale of fear, misperception, and social violence set in the wintry isolation of a Nebraska railroad town. Centered on a paranoid Swedish traveler whose behavior unsettles the patrons of Pat Scully's hotel, the story unfolds with Crane's characteristic compression, irony, and vivid impressionistic detail. At once naturalist and proto-modern, ...