Fighting Nature In Stephen Crane's The Open Boat, Crane uses a personal experience that happened to him to pattern this short story after. Crane's writing style consists of a very prominent use of naturalism. Naturalism is simply the struggle between nature and man, with nature being the most powerful force. In The Open Boat, Crane writes about a sinking boat, therefore placing his characters at nature's mercy. The story line for The Open Boat is …showed first 75 words of 1042 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1042 total…the dinghy all worked together as a team to defeat nature. They all shared the work, and supported each other to the end. With nature taunting them, it is amazing that only one passenger died and that the rest survived to see another day. Crane masterfully uses the literary device of naturalism to its fullest by personifying nature, using color to symbolize the crews journey, and including his own insignificance in the face of nature.