maggie a girl of the streets

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• Tommie Johnson: The youngest Johnson child who dies an early death.
• Mary Johnson: The drunkard and brutal mother who drives Maggie out of the house.
her life are undermined by her mother's drunken rage.meggie begins to date jimmie's friend Pete,who has a job as a bartender and seems a very fine fellow, convinced that he will help her escape the life she leads.He takes her to the theater and the museum.One night jimmie and mary accuse maggie of "goin th deh
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Plot summary
The story opens with Jimmie ,at this point a young boy ,trying to fight a gang of boys from an opposing neighborhood all by himself. He is saved by his friend , pete ,and comes home to his sister maggie,his toddling brother Tommie,his brutal and drunken father and mother, Mary Johnson.The parents terrify the children until they are shuddering in the corner. years pass,the father and tommie die,and jimmie hardens into a sneering,aggressive,cynical youth.He gets a job as teamster,have no regaed for anyone but firetrucks who would run him down. Maggie bigins to work in a shirt factory,but her attempts to improve
no escape from one's biological heredity. Additionally, the circumstances in which a person finds oneself will dominate one's behavior, depriving the individual of responsibility.
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Look at how the environment influences everything and pay attention to the contrast between the Bowery and Maggie herself.
The tenement where Maggie resides is described as, “a dark region where…a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter” .
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Naturalism
Maggie is "regarded as the first work of unalloyed naturalism in American fiction. According to the naturalistic principles, a character is set into a world where there is
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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Introduction
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893
novel by American author Stephen Crane.
Often called a novella because of its short
length, it was Crane's first published book
of fiction. Because the work was
considered too risqué by publishers, Crane,
who was 21 years old at the time, had to
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“这本书企图表明，环境是世界上的一个强有力的东
西，他无视一切地左右着整理人pp们t 的生活。”
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Despite the title, is not necessarily just about Maggie, but rather deals more directly with the Bowery environment itself and how it shapes the lives of its inhabitants.
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• Maggie, “blossomed in a mud puddle. She grew to be a most rare and wonderful production of the tenement district, a pretty girl” .
• Compare the above quote with: “Formidable women, with uncombed hair and disordered dress, gossiped while leaning on railings, or screamed in frantic quarrels” .
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• Father: The brutal, drunkard father of Jimmie, Maggie, and Tommie.
• Maggie Johnson: The eldest Johnson child, protagonist of the story, apparently immune to the after-effects of the negative family. She is seduced by Pete and is seen as effectively ruined. She is implied to have become a prostitute at the end of the novel and dies an early death.
• Pete: A teenager, in the beginning, who is an acquaintance of Jimmie, and saves Jimmie in the fight. Later, he seduces Maggie and breaks her of her romantic viewpoints.
finance the publication of the novel himself.
The novel takes place in the Bowery, a
New York neighborhood in lower
Manhattan.
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Main characters
• Jimmie Johnson: A young boy, Maggie and Tommie's brother, who first appears in the beginning scene fighting a gang war of some sort with the Rum Alley Children.