Steven Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets :: Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets

Maggie A daughter Of The StreetsMaggie and Jimmie are ii siblings being raised within the slums of New York city in the Stephen Crane novel Maggie A Girl of the Streets. The parents of these two are constantly fighting as mixed-up furniture and fistfights are an terrene occurance in the decrepid family apartment. The mother and father fight while their children hide panicky as There was a clash against the door and something broke into clattering fragments .... (Jimmie) perceive howls and curses, groans and shrieks, confusingly in chorus as if a battle were live (11). Crane exxagerates the furniture destruction as every night when the two parents battle, seemingly all the furniture in the apartment is destroyed. Obviously, this poor family couldnt apply to fix and/or buy new furniture everyday. This then is the milieu that Maggie and Jimmie struggle with throughout the novel, but both respond to in diametrical ways. Maggie dreams of a better life than of her roots while J immie excepts his roots and becomes nihilistic. However, the fancy of Maggie sadly goes unfulfilled.Maggie is introduced into the storyline quite subtle and quickly becomes the main steering of attention by the other three main characters. From the beginning, Maggie is a acrid contrast to the slum environment she has to endure. She blossomed in a mud consortium ... a most rare and wonderful production of a tenement house district, a pretty girl (16) that not only had the physical smash that her family seemed to lack, but also the hope that she could be better than what was around in her environment. Therefore, the slum environment that surrounds her contrasts her character greatly. None of the dirt of Rum bowling alley was in her veins (16) as she became the talk of numerous males in the neighborhood.Pete an acquaintance of Jimmie, became Maggies infatuation. They project when Pete is called to the Johnson apartment by Jimmie after Pete promised to attend a boxing oppose wit h him. Although only a bartender, Maggie finds Pete as a man of soulal transcendence (17) that is capable of providing her with any dream she desires. She views the contrast between Pete and her environment when The broken furniture, grimy walls, and general disorder and dirt of her home all of a sudden appeared before her and began to take a potential aspect. Petes aristocratic person looked as if it might soil.