Stephen Crane's Open Boat is an excellent example of realism. The dominant theme of the story seems to tell of the struggle between man and nature. In the final paragraphs of the story, Crane calls the three remaining survivors "interpreters." These survivors had come to understand the "voice" of the ocean that they had endured for so long and felt differently now, after their experience, about the ocean and nature as a whole. Crane's story …showed first 75 words of 330 total…

…showed last 75 words of 330 total…another time, a wave flings the correspondent over the boat, keeping him from crashing into it. I believe that these men feel themselves to be "interpreters" of nature and the sea in that they had come to understand that nature is neither bad nor good, but merely apathetic. Only after two long days on a dingy could the men listen to "the sound of the great sea's voice" and feel "that they could...be interpreters."