The Blue Hotel

Adapts the short story of the same title by Stephen Crane about the arrival and brief stay of a disturbed Swede in an 1880s frontier Nebraska town. Portrays his fear of the "wild" west and how this leads to aggressive behavior and his eventual death. Represents the use of irony as the main theme of short fiction. , Adapted from the story The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane. Tells the story of a stranger in a small Nebraska town in the 1880's, showing the complicity of every person in his own fate and the fate of others.