The Monster
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The lives of Henry Johnson, an African-American coachman, and Jimmie Trescott, the son of Henry's employer, are irretrievably and tragically altered by a fire at the Trescott home. Although Henry saves Jimmie, Henry becomes disfigured in mind and body by an explosion in the doctor's lab.
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In this moving story, author Stephen Crane asks, what is truly monstrous—the deformed man or the prejudice and intolerance of the townspeople?
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