Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Cathrina Sells AML2020 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…

naivety. In the novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, written by Stephen Crane, innocence is portrayed through Maggie, who refuses to see the true cruelties of the world. Maggie is hopeful and naive, and preserves her innocence until driven to corruption and guilt. Throughout the novel, Maggie loses her innocence when she experiences the sadistic world. In the end, after she endures a world full of depression, prostitution and an aggressive drunk of a mother and brother, Maggie takes her own…

The story about Maggie gives us a perspective of how life was in Rum Alley back in the late 1800s, growing up in such a place and conditions will give little to no chances to their habitants specially children, and in specific -girls. There was no way out other than hard labor factory or the streets. This particular Story talks about Maggie: A girl of the streets and how Irony, Discovery and Disillusionment dictated her destiny and short life. Maggie's very dysfunctional family consisted…

challenged readers to look past myths of the American utopia and the promise of the wild prosperous west in order to see America as it was. It focused on lower middle classes depicting daily life in gritty and sometimes unpleasant detail. Both Maggie, Girl of the Streets and Sister Carrie are novels that portray the struggles of urban America and provide a window into city life during the Gilded…

Stephen Crane was considered to be one of America's most influential realist writers, born in New Jersey on November 1, 1871, Crane was the 14th and of the writer Mary Helen Peck Crane. His father Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane was a Methodist minister. Crane attended preparatory school at Claverack College. Later on he attended Lafayette College only for a small period of time. After this he moved to New York city to attended He later spent less than two years overall as a college student at…

After Jimmie confronted Pete, Maggie has not returned home for days and her mother is in horrible condition. Maggie’s mother is always drunk and feels that Maggie betrayed her family and that she would never accept Maggie back when she comes home and asks for forgiveness. Mary believes she did all that she could do as a mother to keep Maggie safe and uses Maggie leaving an excuse every time she is in trouble. Maggie and Pete go to a dance hall where they are seated next to a women called Nell,…

Maggie is a story of the progression and effects of poverty and oppression. The narrative is predominantly based on the perspectives of a brother and sister who both face difficulties stemming from their upbringing, social standing, and life choices. A particular scene that stood out among others was when Maggie returned to Pete, and he was ashamed of her; therefore, he cast her away saying “Oh, go teh hell” (Crane, 45). He didn’t want anything to do with her despite the fact that it was his…

story “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, two women have very different memories as to what happened to a lady named Maggie while they were children in a state home. When they were eight years old, Twyla and Roberta were placed in “St Bonny’s” (201) because their mothers could not take care of them. Twyla’s “mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick” (201). While at the home the two girls were called “salt and pepper” (201) by the other children. Twyla, who tells the story, has not seen her…

. In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, we are introduced to two sisters who are at different phases of their life. Dee is shown to us as the sister who has strayed away and found her definition of what life is supposed to be, while Maggie the other sister has stayed home with their mama and learned about…

We have all been told that we are in charge of our destiny, that it is up to us to determine what our future will look like, and that we are in control of the choices we make. What if that were not the case? What if we have been fooled into believing that everything is in our hands and then we try our hardest to end up becoming something that has already been planned for us by a power larger than existence? The Naturalism genre conveys the power that our society and social restraints have…