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The Blue Hotel Study Guide & Notes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 39 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Blue Hotel.
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The Blue Hotel Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:

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Stephen Crane is known for his creation of stories about regular people, who experience extraordinary events for a brief time in their lives. The Blue Hotel is an excellent example of this. One of the reasons his audience is so varied (from learned scholars to more common folk who enjoy pulp fiction) is that his characters themselves are so varied. If one picks up almost any of his stories, there is at least one character with whom he or she can identify.

The book traces the fears of five men during a winter in the late 1800's and takes place in a small Nebraska town in a space of less than twenty-four hours. Sometimes called a study in fear, it is full of the harshness of the old west, and will appeal to anyone who enjoys rough-hewn excitement. Being accused of cheating at cards, a young man must defend his...
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This section contains 887 words
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