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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Crane, Stephan

Crane, Stephan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary

"The Youth" (Henry Fleming):

In one sense the entire book is a character analysis of Henry Fleming,
and it seems pointless to try to condense Crane's own elaborately conceived
fiction. But we do learn a number of things about the youth initially. He is
sensitive, introspective, and romantic, and above all eager to test his own
inner depths. From one point of view Henry's progress through the book amounts
to a series of shocking contrasts between the glorified images of heroic deeds
his imagination conjures up and the grim realities of ...

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