"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane.

Throughout history, war has been considered a time where a man shows what he is
made of or show off his manhood. In The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane represents
Henry Fleming, who searches for himself while fighting in the Civil War. Crane lived in a
time where war was not seen for many generations. He lived during the Gilded Age, which
was between the Civil War and World War I. Although Crane had never served in the armed
forces but he had a vivid imagination of how the experience would be like. Crane entered the
novel as Henry Fleming. Fleming was the character, which Crane e…