Stephen Crane makes sure we see that violence was a trend in New York tenements he does this by providing the story in which includes fights , abuse and a lot male dominance. In Maggie: A Girl of The Streets starts of by including a scene in where Maggies brother Jimmie is involved in a street fight in Bowery neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side. Right from the beginning we are introduced with some sort of violence going on . From this we would infer that wouldn’t be the last time we would be hearing from that . In this short story Maggie and her family live in poverty, abuse , and she lives with her alcoholic mother who rarely pays attention to her . Her younger brother which turns out to be rather violent and her father which is only
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These tenements are crowded places where immigrants that were short of money had to stay in they were also very crowded. They represented the primary form of urban working-class . These tenements were also home to a lot of poverty and violence and filth. We know that kids growing up seeing violence all around them don’t exactly turn out to have a normal life. They start becoming what they see . They start to become what we call juvenile delinquents , kids that begin committing crimes before the legal age . In a book called Juvenile Crime we can see how seeing all the mess that goes on around under developed places does to the kids and why they become what they see . Louise Gerdes explains that these kids are posed by something more than they see . She mentions that “kids growing up in a violent household tend to become aggressive themselves” this would explain why Jimmie always broke out in fights (Gerdes 40). These kids are underprivileged and they get little to no support from their family. In Maggie’s case her mom is rarely sober because of her alcohol addiction and her father was never home because he didn’t want to be around Mary so he would spend his days at bars. Since they didn’t receive any attention or care from their parents they ended up doing something to make up for that . And because of this they end up growing up being lost in the world .Jimmie ends up with a courtroom record because of his fights and Maggie ends up in prostitution
These tenements are crowded places where immigrants that were short of money had to stay in they were also very crowded. They represented the primary form of urban working-class . These tenements were also home to a lot of poverty and violence and filth. We know that kids growing up seeing violence all around them don’t exactly turn out to have a normal life. They start becoming what they see . They start to become what we call juvenile delinquents , kids that begin committing crimes before the legal age . In a book called Juvenile Crime we can see how seeing all the mess that goes on around under developed places does to the kids and why they become what they see . Louise Gerdes explains that these kids are posed by something more than they see . She mentions that “kids growing up in a violent household tend to become aggressive themselves” this would explain why Jimmie always broke out in fights (Gerdes 40). These kids are underprivileged and they get little to no support from their family. In Maggie’s case her mom is rarely sober because of her alcohol addiction and her father was never home because he didn’t want to be around Mary so he would spend his days at bars. Since they didn’t receive any attention or care from their parents they ended up doing something to make up for that . And because of this they end up growing up being lost in the world .Jimmie ends up with a courtroom record because of his fights and Maggie ends up in prostitution