Stephen Crane is an American Novelist. He was famous for the way he represented his work. He was famous for introducing his work in a mix of naturalism and symbolism and creating emotions that every character in the story relates to one of the readers. Stephen Crane uses the elements fear and control or emotions in general to track the readers from beginning to end. He doesn’t only reveal the way these characters respond to one another, but also, the way people respond to their own irritating feelings of fear, and requirements for control. Crane in this short story describes each character’s according to their fear and reactions to gain control.
The Story opens with three visitors coming from different places in the blizzard and staying at
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The Swede came from a different place to the West forming a different picture about the West which we do not know where he gets it from. It is only an imagination that he predicts his death before he knows anyone. Even though he sits in the hotel where there is peace, they are only playing cards. Irony is like a joke which really is what happened since the beginning until the death of the Swede. The Swede’s attitude is a bit funny at the beginning and comical. He keeps predicting his death without anyone dealing with him until he gets killed by the gambler. Even though it ends in a tragic way but still irony is present.
The use of the cards game is a metaphor and symbolism of loss and gain. It represents the theme of the story that the Swede loses and dies and the other five characters win life by cheating and hiding the truth. Playing cards have a wide and varied use in fiction. If they show up, they're to evoke an air of luck, gambling, and trickery. This definition represents the entire story by representing to opposite concepts luck and trickery developing two other ideas gain and loss. The game is based on trickery, wickedness and acting fast if you follow these you win. The Swede was a fool therefore, he loses and