Who kills the Swede in the Blue Hotel?

The story ends sometime later, when the Easterner and the Cowboy meet up after the Swede’s murder trial. The Easterner reveals that the Gambler was given a light sentence for the murder, and the Cowboy blames the Swede for his aggressive behavior, suggesting it lead to his early death.

The cowboy suggests the bartender bears responsibility for the Swede’s death because he didn’t stop the fight before it got out of hand, yet the cowboy fails to consider how he, himself, did the same thing back in the hotel— and, according to his own logic, thus played a role in the Swede’s death as well.

At supper that evening, the Swede is boisterous, aggressive, and dominates the conversation, nearly “breaking out into riotous song.” The other men respond simply or not at all to his statements and try to keep out of his way, as do Scully’s “daughters” who flee the room with “ill-concealed trepidation.” Scully …

The Easterner is the one who suggests that the Swede’s strange behavior might simply be due to fear, and seems to be a voice of reason throughout the story. During the brawl over the card table, for example, he asks quietly whether such violence is necessary over a game of cards.

The irony in Stephen Crane’s story “The Blue Hotel” is in the fact that the Swede comes to Fort Romper expecting to be killed because he has formed a false picture of the Wild West from reading dime-novels filled with violence and written by hacks who know nothing about the real West.

The Blue Hotel Swede Patrick Scully is the owner of the Palace Hotel, Johnnie Scully is Patrick’s son. The Swede is the dominant character who is eventually killed by the gambler. Cowboy, Bill, supports Johnnie encouraging him to kill the Swede.

Hell On Wheels season 3 found Mount’s Cullen meeting Naomi Hatch, a young Mormon woman, and they later sleep together in a barn. … This dynamic works well for their relationship in Hell On Wheels season 4, where Naomi gives birth to their son William.

Sergeant Frank Harper was a Union soldier, who was accused of murdering Mary Bohannon.

A: No, definitely not. The Swede — Thor Gunderson — was bellyflop champion in Norway back in 1855 and 1856, so I knew he could take that shallow dive and come out smiling. Q: [Laughs] Is that the backstory you invented for The Swede this year?

The Swede comes into the story being afraid of the West because the westerners are dangerous and violent. He excessively compares the inhabitants and the hotel to the ‘gruesome’ beings of the west. But Westerners also relates back to the Englishmen and converting many countries to Christianity.

Introduction. This term paper is concerned with two branches of realism reflected in Stephen Crane’s short story “The Blue Hotel”, published in 1899. … Throughout the story, Crane employs several elements of Realism, more precisely Regionalism and Naturalism.

Naturalist texts often portray characters as being without hope, trapped, and at the mercy of nature, which is unmoved by their plight. The storm in “The Blue Hotel” certainly fits with a naturalist portrayal of the environment as harsh and indifferent.

By far the most important theme in the story is alienation and its dangerous consequences to the individual who feels estranged from the surrounding group, becoming vulnerable to the point of paranoia and self-destructive behavior.

Cullen Bohannon returns to the secluded Hatch family home to reunite with Naomi — and to inform her about The Swede’s execution — only to find that, during their long separation, his wife has more or less committed herself to Isaac Vinson (Toby Hemingway), who barely escaped being killed by The Swede in Episode 508.

The answer, in the end: he’s neither. Cullen ultimately decided to board a ship for passage to China to reunite with Mei. “Allowing him to leave his battle behind, setting him free, opening up a new chapter that allows the audience’s imagination to work rather than closing it down,” Mount says.

And it is admittedly taking on big issues: race, expansion, corruption, and the aftermath of civil war. … When the main character Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), the ex-Confederate guerrilla, admits that he was a slaveholder, he also declares that he freed his slaves one year before the Civil War broke out.

(“Viva La Mexico”) In the final episode of season two entitled “Blood Moon Rising” Lily is strangled to death in her train car by Thor Gundersen, better known as “The Swede”, in an attempt to punish Bohannon.

Cullen Bohannon, as depicted in the series, was not a real person. Bohannon is a composite character loosely based on a few of the real people in similar positions that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad. Bohannon, is a former Confederate officer, was based on Union Major Gen. Grenville M.

Naomi was originally played by Siobhan Williams. MacKenzie Porter was recast as Naomi for Season 4, due to Williams’ scheduling conflicts after she joined the cast of ABC’s Black Box.

I believe the Swede hates bohannon so much is because Cullen bohannon was a Confederate soldier and a well known one at that. This adds on to the fact on how when the Swede was captured by the confederates he faced awful conditions in Andersonville prison.

Bohannon captures the Swede and decides to take him to Camp Douglas to be prosecuted, though he is gravely wounded in the leg. Though the Swede attempts to escape just outside the camp, the Swede and an unconscious Bohannon are brought to Camp Douglas. The camp doctor saves Bohannon and his leg.

LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Blue Hotel, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. “The Blue Hotel” is set in Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century, a time when the state represented the edges of the lawless American West.