The Blue Hotel | Techniques
"The Blue Hotel" has generated a seemingly endless amount of literary criticism. Almost thirty-five pages, exclusive of bibliography, in Michael W. Schaefer's A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Stephen Crane (1996) are devoted to editorial summarization of the dozens of critical studies alone, covering a plethora of philosophical, psychological, theological, and ordinary literary aspects of the story. Critics have argued over such matters as the nature of the strangers, the Swede's character and significance, the cause of the events leading to the Swede's death, Crane's...
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