The Blue Hotel | Ideas for Group Discussion
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...
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