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Finding Truth In Stephen Crane's 'The Wayfarer'
The path to the truth isn’t always well traveled.
Finding the truth is a different journey for all those who put in the effort to do so.
“The Wayfarer” by Stephen Crane, analyzes a person’s path to truth, and the limits they will stretch to discover it.
Judging by his emotions revealed, the wayfarer is on the never-ending path to find truth in life.
While in the midst of traveling, he was “struck with astonishment” that he had “perceive[ed] the pathway to truth,” only to realize that it was “thickly grown with weeds.”
The concept of the weeds being present is to let the readers know that finding truth in life may not always end how you intend it to.
When this path is revealed, the wayfarer thought he had finally learned the truth, but little
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