What are the motifs in The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane?

The personal integrity of several of the characters is attacked in the story. The first may be toward Johnnie who responds in a defensive way to the Swede when he insists that the occupants of the room at the hotel know what he means by asking if many people have been killed here. It is continued when the Swede tells them that he is not a tenderfoot. Not wanting to be seen as anything but an equal, he makes the assumption that if he doesn't force his bravery on them, he will be looked on as a naive eastern dude.