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Insider vs. outlander in The Blue Hotel, The Displaced Person, Bernice Bobs her Hair, and Novel In suspicious BattleWhenever a stranger enters an unfamiliar night club, a clash between the outsiders practices and societys guidelines undoubtedly occurs. Whether the resulting conflict minimally or potently affects the people involved depends on the situation, but usually the results are monumental. In the short stories The Blue Hotel, The Displaced Person, and Bernice Bobs her Hair, and the novel In Dubious Battle, societys maintenance of the stranger has severe negative consequences for the newcomer, as the fellowships rules prevail over the outsiders in the end. A pattern emerges in the iv stories, where societys wariness of the outsider, whether warranted or unwarranted, triggers the rise and fall of the newcomer. The differences that for each one outsider possesses due to his or her own culture and upbringing, though alter from character to character, mark the sour ce of the clash between the outsider and the community which he or she tries to enter. In The Blue Hotel, the swedish turnip separates himself from the group both physically and verbally. His aloofness forces the other characters, who have already familiarized themselves with the excellent hotel in Nebraska, to suspect that he is dangerous. Their suspicions are indeed warranted, as demo during the first card racy of High-Five between Johnnie and the farmer. The cowboy and the Easterner watch the game with interest, while the Swede remains near the window, aloof (39), displaying immediately that he has no intention of conforming to this societys rules. After physically withdrawing from the others, the Swede does so verbally shortly after, stating that th... ...hange a society that already has restore practices, and he and the other workers pay the consequences. As The Blue Hotel, The Displaced Person, Bernice Bobs her Hair, and In Dubious Battle demonstrate, the outsiders in each story, though instilling an initial fear in the eyes of society, experience a sudden and considerable laying waste in the end. Each of these defeats, some more extreme than others, result from a clash of societys fixed guidelines with an outsiders challenge of these rules. Whether this rebellion against society constitutes a conscious or unconscious effort, and whether the penalty results in justifiable or unjustifiable consequences, one pattern emerges. The outsider instills fear in the mind of the community, and as a defense mechanism, society takes it upon itself to conquer the stranger, leading to his or her ultimate downfall.