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Use Of Aggressive Language In Stephen Crane's The Blue Hotel

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The selected passage from Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” uses caustic and aggressive language to describe its scene. The narrator describes the setting in terms of “a turmoiling sea of snow” and “a still man … [standing] aghast amid this profligate fury.” That the narrator chooses these specific descriptions gives the scene an undercurrent of violence and tension. He traps the characters in the room, as well, stating “no island of the sea could be exempt in the degree of this little room.” That is, the narrator is suggesting that the characters cannot escape each other or the scene and the vague threat that colors it. The tone in these lines is tense, but not in a personal or invested way. The narrator is not tense for any one character because
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