A Mystery of Heroism

by Stephen Crane

A Mystery of Heroism Characters

Fred Collins

Collins is an infantryman in an unnamed war. As an ongoing battle rages, he watches from safety behind a hill where the infantry is stationed until. However, when he states that he wants a drink… read analysis of Fred Collins

The wounded lieutenant

The lieutenant of the battery is a member of Collins’s company who commands an artillery battery, and who at one point rides by the infantrymen. He passes by slowly and calmly on his horse and… read analysis of The wounded lieutenant

Collins’s comrades

When Collins expresses his desire for a drink of water from a well located in the middle of a battlefield being bombarded by shells and gunfire, his comrades of the infantry A Company needle him… read analysis of Collins’s comrades