Nature is indifferent to the plight and to the struggle of man. Past glories are of no great Importance except as training ground. Man has to prove his worth every time the crisis comes. Such experience is to be tackled anew. Courage, honesty, sincerity, a feeling of brotherhood, and a strong conviction in respect of one's own ideas and principles are the only virtues which could bring salvation. Crane has shown in his fiction that man's victory is not any material gain or success. He rises in his own esteem. But for Crane this personal gain of an individual is more important than any other thing. Death and loss are Insignificant when compared with true courage, and the satisfaction in having preserved one's integrity.

As a result of careful analysis of the major themes in the war-fiction of Crane, it is established that their war-fiction treats similar themes like war and violence, war as a metaphor of life, Nature and its ambivalences, morality and alienation. It establishes the fact that their perceptions regarding these phenomenon have much in common. It shows that both the novelists adopt questioning attitude to conventional morality. They also share, to some extent, the naturalistic view of the impact of the external forces on human destiny.