The Blue Hotel | Characters
The central character, around whom the action swirls, is "a shaky and quickeyed Swede," one of the three strangers who get off the train at Fort Romper, Nebraska. He is from New York, where he spent ten years working as a tailor. Furtively assessing the men around him, he resembles someone who is badly frightened. However, he inquires "about the crops and the price of labor." To some readers, the Swede's extreme fear and uneasiness in the up-and-coming but unruly railroad town of Fort Romper may seem excessive. To others, it will likely be understandable, considering the Swede's having...
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