In the novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane uses many characters to demonstrate the theme moral hypocrisy. In the story, Maggie faces many problems such as escaping the bowery, and is known as the protagonist. Maggie’s brother Jimmie demonstrates moral hypocrisy throughout the story and is known as the hypocrite. For the duration of the novella, Stephen Crane demonstrates the bowery as a region of the city that is known for changing the inhabitant’s actions due to alcoholism, prostitution, crime, and poverty. Jimmie shows moral hypocrisy when judging Maggie, and when being critical of Pete. Crane uses Jimmie to show moral hypocrisy and how it affects people. In the Novella, Jimmie is critical of many people, one of them is
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Jimmie is hypocritical when he gets mad at Pete for going into one’s home and ruining one’s sister, when he also does this to Hattie and leaves her with a baby to take care of. “Jimmie had an idea it wasn't common courtesy for a friend to come to one's home and ruin one's sister. But he was not sure how much Pete knew about the rules of politeness” (Crane 32). Jimmie gets mad at Pete for doing this, but he also does the same thing to Hattie. Hattie is a girl who Jimmie has an affair with, and leaves her with a child to take care of and gives her no money to support it. Jimmie has many hypocritical actions throughout the novella, and those actions have major effects on other …show more content…
Moral hypocrisy is used by Jimmie all throughout the novella. Jimmie becomes a hypocrite when he gets mad at Pete for the affair. He also uses hypocrisy when he gets mad at Pete when he decided to “come to one's home and ruin one's sister” (Crane 32). Lastly, Jimmie’s hypocrisy was shown when he got mad at Maggie for her affair and got her kicked out of the house. This action ended up getting Maggie killed and was hypocritical because Jimmie has had many affairs of his own. In the real world, moral hypocrisy like this could affect someone in a bad way. Jimmie represents moral hypocrisy in the novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and shows what tragic and detrimental effects it has on other
Jimmie is hypocritical when he gets mad at Pete for going into one’s home and ruining one’s sister, when he also does this to Hattie and leaves her with a baby to take care of. “Jimmie had an idea it wasn't common courtesy for a friend to come to one's home and ruin one's sister. But he was not sure how much Pete knew about the rules of politeness” (Crane 32). Jimmie gets mad at Pete for doing this, but he also does the same thing to Hattie. Hattie is a girl who Jimmie has an affair with, and leaves her with a child to take care of and gives her no money to support it. Jimmie has many hypocritical actions throughout the novella, and those actions have major effects on other …show more content…
Moral hypocrisy is used by Jimmie all throughout the novella. Jimmie becomes a hypocrite when he gets mad at Pete for the affair. He also uses hypocrisy when he gets mad at Pete when he decided to “come to one's home and ruin one's sister” (Crane 32). Lastly, Jimmie’s hypocrisy was shown when he got mad at Maggie for her affair and got her kicked out of the house. This action ended up getting Maggie killed and was hypocritical because Jimmie has had many affairs of his own. In the real world, moral hypocrisy like this could affect someone in a bad way. Jimmie represents moral hypocrisy in the novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and shows what tragic and detrimental effects it has on other