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November 29, 2017
Mrs. Schultz Two Iconic Authors Henry James, “Daisy Miller” and Stephen Crane’s, “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets”. Both authors are elusive enough to create the appropriate base for elaborating gender roles in their novels, it becomes primary to concentrate on the same time. Both have similarity that related to the thematic and narrative structures of both narrations. In this approach, the analytical surveys will be led over the narrative and thematic techniques applied by these writers with reference to the context of gender roles. Crane was the foundation of modern American naturalism, Stephen …show more content…
(Wertheim 124) Stephen Crane completed his first book, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets in 1893, a compassionate story of an innocent and abused girl’s descent into prostitution and her eventual suicide. Crane was also known as a war writer, as well as his curiosity about his accuracy in depicting psychological states of combat, he undertook a new career: war correspondent. In 1897, Crane set sail for Cuba to report on the insurrection there, However, after the ship he was traveling, the SS Commodore, sank, Crane spent more than a day adrift with three other men. His account of the ordeal resulted in one of the world’s great short stories, “The Open Boat.” In this story each character symbolize the practicality and understanding of the …show more content…
Henry James deal with themes that have bearing on his own life: liberation, entrapment, exile, and artistry. Gender role in Daisy Miller like any other narration by Henry James, this piece of art too has got the captivating narrative structure. Henry James “Daisy Miller”, with it’s portrayal, brought him widespread , so much that the name of the title character became used frequently in contemporary debates about the role of women in the United States. James told H.G. Wells in 1915, “It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance…and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process”. (James part II) The author has got the generalized source of practical persuasions to offer the readers with a romantic flight of his composition. The plot portrays an idealistic courtship between an American origin couple, Daisy Miller and