The key to understanding a writer's work is being able to follow what the writer is saysing. Imagery is a key way of doing so. The imagery of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" focuses on protraying ideas to create within the reader a sense of involvement. This helps the reader interpret ideas and follow the writer's work with an insight and feeling for the work. This detail is also very important in keeping …showed first 75 words of 935 total…

…showed last 75 words of 935 total…mind. "The central idea of this book is more important thant the magnificent grasp of externals uon it." (The Fredric Harold Review, 11-12) This quote sums it all up by bringing together the magnificent idea that imagery is the most important element that Crane uses by casting images into the reader's mind and this giving the reader a real view of what the character Henry Flemming is encountering at all points of this great novel.