“came from a fight Crane witnessed on histravel across the west.” He tried to break the fight up that he witnessed instead ofencouraging it as everyone in the story does.Crane also shows his naturally used theme of betrayal and guilt through the Swede.He does this after the Swede leaves the hotel. “The Swede goes into a bar and asks somegentlemen to drink with him to celebrate his victory over Johnny.” When they refuse hebecome angry as if he is being betrayed by these men because they will not let him buythem a drink. “The Swede then threatens one of the gentlemen and the man retaliates andends up killing the Swede.” Without this betrayed feeling the Swede would have probablylived.This ,the blue hotel, “ could have been one of Crane’s best works if it were not forthe puzzling ending, in which the Easterner offers a moral that baffles not only theCowboy , but the reader as well.” “He (the Easterner) does this by telling the Cowboy heseen Johnny cheating but never spoke up.” If the Easterner would have spoken up soonerthe whole story would have changed drastically. In the poem “Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind,” Crane also shows thischaracteristic of betrayal. In the poem there is a wife, daughter, and a mother who feel asif they have been betrayed by their husband, father, and son for leaving them to fight fortheir country in war. The author tries to comfort them by telling them that everything willbe all right, “for war is kind.”Crane also uses his descriptive setting to help the reader see what it looks like inwar. For example in line eleven he says “ a field where a thousand corpses lie.” In lineseight and nineteen he says “ these men were born to drill and die.” You can just see themen running around everywhere. Screaming and hollering while their friends are dying allaround them. There is nothing they can do but pra...
