Comparing and Contrasting Stepehn Crane and Frank Norris's naturalistic characters

In comparing and contrasting the naturalistic characters Henry Fleming of Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage with the central character of Frank Norris’s McTeague we see such issues as temperament, instinctual and social forces that drive these men to act the way they do. Each character is faced with personal issues yet on different levels. I will show how these characters are affected by their surroundings and how to themselves they justify their actions. In comparing and contrasting the naturalistic characters Henry Fleming of Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage with the central character of Frank Norris’s McTeague we see such issues as temperament, instinctual and social forces that drive these men to act the way they do. Each character is faced with personal issues yet on different levels. I will show how these characters are affected by their surroundings and how to themselves they justify their actions.


With both these characters we see i...