1. Wolfe's attitude towards the astronaut is to show that he is an important figure for society and that it is because of this importance that people want to hear him. That's because Wolfe wants the astronaut to know that people admire what he did, seeing him as brave, intelligent and adventurous.
2. He sees people as "trapped" in the history of the astronaut and the figure he represents, as if there is nothing more important in the world than the astronaut and as if he were a kind of divinity. This can be seen when the narrator says that people are waiting to breathe the same air as the astronaut, to hear any word he has to speak, to occupy the space he is occupying, among other things.
Answer: I believe the answer is that they both use colloquialism, which creates a sense of realism.
Explanation: I had a passage about them, and it stated that the way they were alike is; "Like Twain, Crane also uses dialect or colloquialism that is a convincing reflection on the setting." Please let me know if I was right or wrong. Hope this helped! :)
