on, and so on and so forth. In ôThe Open Boat,ö Crane demonstrates such a multiple-consciousness. As Rath and Shaw (1991) argue, there are three Cranes in the short story that pass through different consciousnesses: ôCrane the correspondent/character, who experiences the accident as a passenger; Crane the sailor/author, who relives the traumaàand who agonizes over his mateÆs death; and Crane the author/narrator, who rewitnesses the accident for us as a fifth character observing himself and his companionsö (p. 94).
There are numerous examples in the short story that demonstrate CraneÆs psychological makeup toward life and human existence. He find nature to be indiff
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