Maggie (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Crane
- First Published: 1893
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Homelessness or homeless people, Suicide, Nineteenth century, New York City, Prostitution or prostitutes, Alienation, Poverty or poor people, Inner cities or inner-city life, Women’s issues
- Locales: Manhattan, NY
Maggie Johnson, the heroine of Stephen Crane’s novel, is described as a flower blossoming in the “mud-puddle” of New York’s Irish slum life. In her family and neighborhood, she has known nothing but violence and squalor, the results of poverty and deprivation. Her alcoholic father and mother fight constantly, and the children are terrified by their parents’ brutality. Maggie’s older brother Jimmie turns into a tough street urchin, and the baby Tommie dies of neglect.
Maggie grows up to be an attractive girl, but sees no way out of the trap of poverty and violence. Her...
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