James Trammel Cox’s, Stephen Crane as Symbolic Naturalist: An Analysis of ‘The Blue Hotel’ argues that Stephen Cranes ‘The Blue Hotel’ is a naturalist work of literature specifically symbolic naturalism. The symbols Crane utilizes are the stove and colors to represent emotions. The stove is a physical symbol in the story that is placed in the center and mentioned more than twenty times (citation?). Cox criticizes that the stove is representative of man. While the characters play the game in the hotel they are always gathered around the stove. Colors are significant symbols in the story as well. It is argued the color white represents fear, the Swede is referred to as white or pale a few times. Red is representative of anger. However, the colors
