Maggie Coming Home Analysis

As the story went on things began to change. Maggie’s mother was feeling some kind of remorse for her not coming home. She was still angry and upset on how her daughter could have done that to her. How have she become a disgrace blaming Maggie for her drinking and every time she got arrested she would tell them that it was because her daughter. She believed that one day Maggie would come back home after Pete or the guy she was with would beat her. She thought she would come ask her for forgiveness. She actually said she would take her back even though after she had abused her mother. “Den I’ll take’er in, wont I, deh beast. She kin cry’er two eyes out on deh stones of deh street before I’ll dirty deh place wid her. She abused an’ ill-treated her own mudder-her own mudder what loved her an’ she’ll never git annodder chance dis side of hell” (59). At this point if the mother changed her habit and would have realized that she was the one who was the problem, and was a disgrace as a …show more content…
Maggie became a prostitute. This decision was the worst. She should have just gone home tried to get another job to better herself but she did not. It affected her and her life was over. The way Pete was acting might have been because he was not with Maggie. He spent his day at the bar with many women including Nellie. It was her fault Maggie and Pete were not together and her life became worse than it was already. As well as his. All the women wanted was his money and for him to buy him drinks. Once he was so drunk passing out all the women left him there including Nellie. He had left Maggie for Nellie just so Nellie could do the same. He should have not left Maggie he would have actually had a woman that loved him and cared for him but he did not. He chose to leave her and ended up being left as well by the person he left Maggie for. There was no way to fix things anymore all of their lives were