“You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you’re ready to die, it comes to you—that there’s nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain’t doneContinue reading “There was a settlement in Kansas, and its name was Butcher’s Crossing!”
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Blue Hotel: A story recommended by Hemingway
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. ThroughContinue reading “Blue Hotel: A story recommended by Hemingway”