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Settings, Characters, and Ideas in The Blue Hotel   The Story The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane was one that inspires a lot of thought. This thought is to the highest degree settings, characters, and ideas. The characters he creates ar very different from each other, as manoeuvren in comparisons to each other. The use of symbolism in the story lets us imagine why the hotel is sundry(a) forbidding and we can wonder about the character of the turnip cabbage for long periods of time. These elements combined submit made this story very good. The settings in the story are a very big focal point of Stephen Crane. He develops them very well and makes them actually serve a purpose in the story. The color blue painted on the outside of the hotel could symbolize its old age and the dark and dreary atmosphere surrounding it. The hotel seems to be a microcosm because it is the central point for all of the storys characters. The solely place that they interact with each other is inside o f the hotel and the main(prenominal) points of the story happen there. All of the violent confrontations happen in the hotel or around its grounds. The main fight between the Swede and Johnny is outside in the bitter cold in the street. The hotel could possibly change the characters thinking and cause them to be sincerely weird. This is shown when Scully shows the Swede pictures of his dead family (269). What person in their right mind would show someone who thinks they are going to be killed a picture of someone who was killed? These examples show how the settings are more important then the characters themselves. The characters are very odd in this story. Its very hard to think of how such a group could have been formed. The differences among the men are large. The cowboy is the rugged and sinister type, while the easterner is very open and joyful. Johnnie is not like his dad, Scully. They seem to be foils of each other. The Swede is just very unique and in a class by himself. H e is a classic case of a paranoid schizophrenic. Dont believe me? How about when he says, Im crazy-yes, but I know one thing (267). That one thing is he knows is that he will be killed soon, very soon. The problem and/or question of whether or not the Swede would have been killed whether Johnnie had participated in that fight by his cheating or not, is easy to answer.