Darkness is a great, tremendous silence, accented by small and distant sounds.
The musice of the wind in the trees is songs of loneliness, hymns of abandonment, and lays of the absence of things congenial and alive. Once a campfire lay dying in a fit of temper. A few flames struggeled cholerically among the burned out logs. There is clear evidence here of Crane's painterly and impressionistic style and his addiction to color adjectives, metaphor, and symbol. A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage , the former noted for its grotesqueries and the latter for its psychological probing of character.