Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, And Pessimism

Part I of Essay
In Stephen Crane's short story “The Open Boat”, the American literary school of naturalism is used and three of the eight features are most apparent, making this work, in my opinion, a good example of the school of naturalism. These three of the eight features are determin ....

Part II of Essay
.... a great spread of water, like white flames, swarmed into her.” (pg.145) There is also a sense that man is totally not important to the natural forces controlling his fate. “When it occurs to man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply that there are no bricks and no temples.” (pg156) The one character who perishes, the oiler, is of course a victim of determinism. Even as he was so close to land a ....