The Open Boat | Techniques
The story came from Crane's real-life experience of being one of four men in a dinghy attempting to survive the sinking of the ship The Commodore. Crane found that a factual account of the sinking and survival was almost impossible to write. Each man on the sinking ship and in the dinghy noticed and highlighted different points. Thus Crane's factual version of the sinking was different from the Captain's. (In fact, the Captain himself had some factual differences between the two accounts he gave.) Yet if Crane made the story totally fictional he would not be able to bring an...
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