An analysis of two main characters in stephen crane's two short stories three miraculous soldiers and the veteran

The study in this paper concerned with the characteristics of Mary and Mr. Fleming in the Amazing Stephen Crane�s short stories and how the war is described by the two main characters. The method used in this paper is qualitative and the way of analysis used character analysis. The writer depicted the characteristics of two main characters are Mary and Mr. Fleming. In this research, the writer used descriptive analysis. He analyzed the two short stories by reading them intensively and giving hard attention to each paragraph. After that, the writer tried to find the proof that can support and strengthen the characteristic analysis. As the conclusion, the writer found that the characteristic of Mary and Mr. Fleming in the Amazing Stephen Crane�s short stories was developed from the first till the end of story. From the analysis of the character of the two main characters, the writer finally finds that they (Mary and Mr. Fleming) have many similar characteristics that are, brave, kind, care, honest, and heroic. In addition, with their characteristics, Mary and Mr. Fleming are able to describe the war that happens at that time. Even they were involved in war situation, they always can do positive things without being influenced by the negative characteristic of war. More over, they also have strong characteristic