"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane

This story reminded me so much of The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Both stories feature people who find themselves taken by the sea, in a both a physical and emotional sense. The Old Man absolutely refuses to give up the fish even though it is controlling him, while some men on the dinghy do not want to return to land even though they are in constant peril. In both stories, the characters misjudge the sea and the power it possesses.