Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, , language: English, abstract: This term paper is concerned with two branches of realism reflected in Stephen Crane's short story "The Blue Hotel", published in 1899. This short story deals with a short stay of three men at Scully s Palace Hotel in Nebraska. One of them, called the Swede behaves strangely by being convinced that everyone is trying to kill him. Throughout the story, Crane employs several elements of Realism, more preci-sely Regionalism and Naturalism. These two aspects of Realism are characterised by the features and the behaviour of the characters. The aim of this term paper is to give an explanation of the major realistic elements in The Blue Hotel and to analyze in how far Crane manages to make use of them.