Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Style

Structure
Colvert writes that in the novel, Crane “eschewed the conventional plot, shifting the focus from the drama of external event or situation to the drama of thought and feeling in the mental life of his subjects.” There are important events in the story, usually marked by their violence, but they serve mainly as a catalyst for the characters’ internal responses, which adroitly focus the narrative on the effect the environment has on them. For example, few details are given of Jimmie’s fight with the neighboring gang, while more time is spent detailing the...

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