Stephen Crane's Maggie: Girl Of The Streets

“[E]nvironment is a tremendous thing in the world, and frequently shapes lives regardless.” (“Although it’s origins…”) Stephen Crane was influenced to write his 1893 novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, as a result of his religious family, the secrecy to publish a novel that reveals the reality and impurity of the real world and from the impact of needy, urban landscapes that ended realism and began naturalism.

Walker suggests to reader that Maggie is very innocent, quiet, and insecure through her actions and speech to Dee and Ma, which illuminates her purity and selflessness. ““Aunt Dee’s first husband whittled the dash,” said Maggie so low you almost couldn’t hear her.” ’ Maggie also is described “cowering behind me (Ma)”, “trembling” and “hands as limp as a fish”,

Through Mama’s voice, Walker describes Maggie to be the complete opposite in everything that her older sister is. In contrast to the confident personality that her older sister attains, Mama says, “[Maggie] has been like this, chin

In “Maggie: A girl of the Streets” Maggie was the timid, shy, conventional, girl that ended up being treated as a possession (like a fancy wristwatch a man may wear to showoff) rather than the individual she was, by her boyfriend Pete, and wasn’t treated much better by her family as well. Pete was a character that showed his masculinity best through fighting

She worked hard enough and was able to get an incredible trainer to train her. Maggie is in the hospital after her downfall, getting punched after the bell and now being paralyzed, she is going to lose her legs, has to breathe out of a breathing tube and will never fight again. Maggie says to Frankie, “I can’t be like this, Frankie. Not after what I’ve done. I’ve seen the world. People chanted my name. Well, not my name… some damn name you gave me. I was in magazines. You think I ever dreamed of that’d happen?” In this quote Maggie exhibits that she is ready to die, she has achieved more then she could ever dream of. Maggie learns that she can do anything if she puts her mind to it.

Stephen Crane’s analysis of life is spawned from his point of view about the world. These opinions correlate alongside naturalistic train of understanding. He applied a legitimate law of the universe, “ one can either accept the laws determining the social order or become their victim,” which is applied to the novel Maggie: Girl of the streets. The book is an example of Naturalistic and a Realistic novel that offers an accurate and specific illustration of life and was portrayed based on people living in a poor society, and how they were affected emotionally, physically, psychologically, and mentally. The novella serves as a medium of drama that occurs,

Maggie lost her confidence and what made her who she is, is the terrifying memories she had when the house got on fire and had left scars on her, which made her feel “ugly”. Though that Maggie seems to be the opposite from her sister, but she values life more than Dee. She is proud of where she is from and she is not willing to change her life although she is uneducated and didn’t go discover life like Dee did. Maggie is proud of her heritage unlike her

The two sisters are complete opposite for many different reasons, from their appearance to their attitudes. Maggie is very humble, and is not very confident, while her sister Dee, is very selfish and cocky. Maggie has this attitude because she was involved in a house fire accident (Carmen). Christine states, “Her mother feels that her daughter Dee had always acted as if she were destined to something better than the social class into which she was born. “Dee always thought she was better than others, “She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts” (79). Maggie on the other hand would put other people’s needs before hers, which also made her a better person in general. In the story Dee is the prettier sister, while Maggie is

Moral Hypocrisy in Maggie A Girl of the Streets “Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favorite child.” In the novel Maggie: A Girl of the Street (MGS), the individuals is not only alcoholics but also hypocrite, who only thinks of themselves. They live a rough life in the slums, the streets is fill with waste and everyone is trying to drink their sorrows away. Only the protagonist, Maggie, have a dream of getting out of the atrocious environment. In Stephaney Crane’s novel MGS, crane shows a mountain of moral hypocrisy in Jimmie, in order to demonstrate the cause of naturalism.

Maggie’s appearance shows how different she is from Mama and Dee. Maggie is very bashful and very slim this is shown when Mama says “Showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and blouse” (52). Where Maggie is petite, she walks different compared to other people: “She has been like this, chin to chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle” (53). Maggie’s old house was very different compared to the new one. Her old house got burned down “Ten, Twelve years

In Stephen Crane's novel, "Maggie, A Girl of the Streets", there is a great deal of moral development in the life of Maggie Johnson, the protagonist of the story. Throughout the novella, she undergoes a great deal of emotional, mental, and physical turmoil after a series of events leaves her out on the streets. Because she has no choice but to fend for herself, she does some questionable things herself, and ultimately becomes a completely different person, with different characters having a hug influence on her behavior and decisions. Crane uses a variety of literary devices such as mood, similes, and imagery to convey the struggles to the reader, as well as give a clear picture of what the lives of Maggie and others were like during this time.

As the play opens, the reader is led to believe that Maggie is mistreated and verbally abused by Brick. Although she is beautiful and states that she wants relations with Brick, he tells her he no longer loves her and to “take a lover.” (40). Brick states, “You keep forgetting the conditions by which I agreed to stay with you.” (35). “He adds” --But how in hell on earth do you imagine--that you’re going to have a child by a man that can’t stand you?” (63). The reader never learns the conditions but is led to believe it is associated with the death of his best friend, Skipper and the relationship between the three of them.

After the Civil War, realism became a dominant form of writing in the United States, with writers attempting to write about everyday life. After realism came naturalism, a form of writing similar to realism, but with more pessimism. One of the reasons for this pessimism stems from free will and the question of whether people possess it or not. In realism, it is definitely true, while in naturalism it seems less so, but the options are often less than ideal. Because choices do exist for characters, free will is still there, which indicates that naturalism is a derivative form of realism. In Stephen Crane’s “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,” the characters may have little chance to escape the world they inhabit, like Maggie, Jimmie, and

As we all know, women suffer a lot under men’s control in the early twentieth century. In the play, Mrs Wright is the best example to show the existence of oppression in women. The readers get to know the real reason why Mrs Wright murders Mr Wright. Before marrying John Wright, Minnie Foster was a cheerful and popular singer. Her life undergoes big changes after marrying John Wright. She is forced to live in John’s uncheerful and hollow farmhouse, managing households every day. She struggles and suffers alone as they are childless. This is portrayed through Mrs Hale and Mrs Peters conversations. “I stayed away because it weren’t cheerful. Maybe it’s down in a hollow and you don’t see the road.”John Wright has used to control Minnie Foster’s daily activities. She has no choice but keeping herself alone in the kitchen. Her decision to buy a canary to sing for her has made mad of the husband, John Wright. He killed the bird and the killing of bird oppressed Minnie Foster to murder her husband. The main cause of the tragedy is prominent through the theme of oppression of women. If John Wright treats her wife nicely, I am sure that the murder will not happen. With this, I think that Glaspell may like to emphasize that women often have the rights to be treated equally just as the

In Stephen Crane’s book Maggie: A Girl of the Streets there are various themes, one of them is the impact of the social environment. The impact of social environment is how people are products of their own environment and people are who they grew up to be due to the conditions, people, and environment that surrounds them. The Bowery is 14 blocks and has 82 bars there that make alcohol very accessible to the residents, including children. The Bowery has a negative impact on people and even children that live there. The Bowery is a concrete jungle where only the strong survive. The living conditions are unquestionably poor and the tenements where they live is full of immigrants. The kids in the Bowery live with alcoholic and abusive parents, pregnant women who are not married, and finally prostitutes. Maggie, Jimmie, and Pete are all characters that deserve forgiveness due to Stephen Crane message, people are products of their own environment and deserve forgiveness.