Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Criticism

  • Distant Dinners in Crane’s Maggie

    In the following essay, Golemba examines how Crane and other realist writers “developed a language of food in order to give an impression of being ‘inside’ the social topic, of seeing deeper than the surface,” and the problems associated with that approach.

  • Comparisons Between Maggie and Jimmie

    Petruso has a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in screenwriting. In this essay, Petruso compares and contrasts the characters of Maggie, the purported heroine of Crane’s novel, and Jimmie, Maggie’s brother who also plays a large role in the novel. Both are creatures of the street for different reasons, and their differing sexes and lives result in very different life paths.

  • Naturalistic Themes

    Perkins is a professor of English at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland and has published articles on several twentieth-century authors. In this essay, Perkins examines Crane’s exploration of the naturalistic themes in Maggie.