SOURCE: "The Word Out of the Sea: A View of Crane's 'The Open Boat'," in Arizona Quarterly, Vol, 30, No. 2, Summer, 1974, pp. 101-10.
In the following essay, Autry examines Stephen Crane's use of the sea in his "The Open Boat" to demonstrate the weakness of man and the futility of human struggle against nature.
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