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"The Blue Hotel" is known as one of Crane's finest three short stories, along with the "Open Fishing boat" and "The Bride comes to Yellow Sky". The storyline starts with the hotel owner trolling for guests at the train station and finding three: the Swede, the Cowboy, and the Easterner. As with many reports, the personalities are known by their game titles not their titles; the two known by their titles will be the hotel keeper, Scully, and his son Johnny. The first major event is a play for fun (no money) greeting card game where the Swede accuses Johnny of cheating. Johnny skillfully defends himself by saying he won't endure the accusation, while aspect stepping the truth of the problem. The Swede is all upset; no one comes to his recovery; he has a combat with the son; wins; and leaves. He would go to the neighborhood saloon and enters event number 2 2 in challenging the gambler after he won't take a drink. As with most Crane reports, the irony is building as the storyplot goes on. In the soul of the literary times, as mirrored in Spoon River by Edgar Lee Masters and Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, this is actually the key second in the storyplot that could change everything. The gambler will not take the free drink; he winds up getting rid of the Swede; he would go to jail and the Swede is dead. He might well have just taken the drink and didn't. Later, the Easterner instructs the Cowboy that no, Johnny wasn't innocent, he was cheating and the Easterner didn't have guts to avoid it by speaking out. Then your Swede would have stayed in the hotel and wouldn't have passed on. Another landmark account with the previous turn of incidents topping it off.
