Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Characters

Jimmie Johnson Jimmie, Maggie’s brother, appears at the opening of the novel. At a young age, he has become as savage as the little “true assassins” he battles in the streets. His survival on these mean streets depends on his ability to dodge fists and stones as well as to develop an exalted sense of himself, which he displays in the opening fight when he tells all comers that he can lick them “wid one han’” The world hardens him at an early age, and he gives it no respect “because he had begun with no idols that it had smashed.” As he grows older, he becomes a bully,...

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