While reading this story, I was not aware of this fact. Now I came to know that this story was one of the two stories recommended by Hemingway to every young writer.
As they say, Stephen Crane’s fiction is typically categorized as representative of Naturalism, American realism, Impressionism, or a mixture of the three. Through this story of Crane, I tried to understand what the meaning of “Impressionism” was. This was a different sort of story for me. I can say a distinguishing one! I have mixed feelings about it.
First I was flowing with the story, It was a smooth effusion. The writing was good and the plot of suspense was fabricated very nicely, from the very beginning. I could feel an unrestrained expression of the emotion of five men inside a hotel, they were playing cards, a disorderly outburst or annoying tumult was felt by me through the characters of this story. The story was routine and the characters were being developed by the author with astute precision. Everything was perfect. I was getting into the plot.
But when I reached towards the end, my mind got embroiled into a state of commotion and confusion, the story took a different kind of turn and though things happened similarly as I was expecting but happened in a very unsubmissive manner!
And for that moment, very near to the ending of the story, Something happened and there was someone behind all the happenings. I did not really get the purpose of the story. Maybe my mind was not receptive to it.
But then there was a final paragraph of the story where it was stated that…
“Every sin is the result of a collaboration.”
And then I heard one of the five men, saying…
“Well, I didn’t do anything, did I ?”
And this way, Just after reading the final line of this story I found that it was a great story with a message! Did you get what I am trying to say? It was a great story!
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