AN APPRECIATION OF THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

“If Mark Twain was all our grandfather,then Crane was the father.”1In the American literary world Stephen Crane formed a connecting linkbetween the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentiethcentury.Crane was most clearly the forerunner of the twentieth-centuryAmerican literature among the writers of the 1890′s.Although his literarycareer was very short,he left enough outstanding work to place him solidlyamong the best American novelists.Only at nineteen,he wrote his