On a superficial level, this story is about communication, or failure in communication, which here opens up a cluster of more specific issues. Among them: (a) a stranger's misinterpretation of the "insiders'" language and customs, with harmful results; (b) the basic human problem of weaknesses in personality, character, and ability to cope under extremely trying conditions when the odds of success are also unfavorable; (c) Crane's peculiar diction.
1. What elements or events in his own experience, actual or at second hand, might have led the Swede to believe he was going to be killed in Fort Romper, when he had chosen to go there himself?
2. What.....
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