A Girl of the Streets illustrates the harshness and sad lives experienced by the lowest class of Americans during the Industrial Revolution. Those without jobs in factories often turned to alcohol and did not live long, healthy lives. Many men have become like Maggie's father, a human being who will do anything for one more drink. Others relied on God and the idea of a reward in the afterlife to maintain sanity in their hard and sad lives. In his novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane describes the state of Americans living in the slums of the 1990s, believing, much like Darwin, that disadvantaged workers will never be able to escape their socio-class economical. Crane's view of lower-class life in America is very similar to the view of hard determinists. In Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, the protagonist, Maggie, is born into poverty that she will have to live with for the rest of her life. Despite growing up in a wild environment, Maggie believes she can change her future. Maggie's beauty works to her advantage, but she has no real education on how the world works other than the dramas she has witnessed, where the poor and virtuous always triumph over the rich and cruel. The truth about his unfortunate situation is that he never had a chance to succeed in life. Crane shows that his many misfortunes throughout his short life prove this point. An example is Maggie's first meeting with Nell. His silence during this meeting is a key part of why Pete left Maggie for Nell. However, if Maggie had spoken up, she would have been ridiculed for her ignorance and accent, thus leaving the lesser of the two bad choices, to remain... middle of paper... drunken insults. Maggie is no longer able to fit in even with the lowest social classes and ultimately ends up committing suicide. This was caused by Maggie's belief that she can escape her family and her original social status, but Crane brings her hopes and dreams back into reality by having her betrayed by all of her loved ones. Stephen Crane, an upper-class man during the late 1800s, sends a message to the American people through his novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, about the "destructive nature of urban life in the Bowery of the 1890s" (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Bloom's Guides.) She testified with bitter cynicism that there was no hope for millions of people living lives of barren cruelty in the tenements and slums of America's cities. One hundred and twenty-one years later, there are no obvious solutions to multigenerational poverty.

Topic > A Girl of the Streets illustrates the harshness and sad lives experienced by the lowest class of Americans during the Industrial Revolution. Those without jobs in factories often turned to alcohol and did not live long, healthy lives. Many men have become like Maggie's father, a human being who will do anything for one more drink. Others relied on God and the idea of a reward in the afterlife to maintain sanity in their hard and sad lives. In his novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane describes the state of Americans living in the slums of the 1990s, believing, much like Darwin, that disadvantaged workers will never be able to escape their socio-class economical. Crane's view of lower-class life in America is very similar to the view of hard determinists. In Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, the protagonist, Maggie, is born into poverty that she will have to live with for the rest of her life. Despite growing up in a wild environment, Maggie believes she can change her future. Maggie's beauty works to her advantage, but she has no real education on how the world works other than the dramas she has witnessed, where the poor and virtuous always triumph over the rich and cruel. The truth about his unfortunate situation is that he never had a chance to succeed in life. Crane shows that his many misfortunes throughout his short life prove this point. An example is Maggie's first meeting with Nell. His silence during this meeting is a key part of why Pete left Maggie for Nell. However, if Maggie had spoken up, she would have been ridiculed for her ignorance and accent, thus leaving the lesser of the two bad choices, to remain... middle of paper... drunken insults. Maggie is no longer able to fit in even with the lowest social classes and ultimately ends up committing suicide. This was caused by Maggie's belief that she can escape her family and her original social status, but Crane brings her hopes and dreams back into reality by having her betrayed by all of her loved ones. Stephen Crane, an upper-class man during the late 1800s, sends a message to the American people through his novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, about the "destructive nature of urban life in the Bowery of the 1890s" (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Bloom's Guides.) She testified with bitter cynicism that there was no hope for millions of people living lives of barren cruelty in the tenements and slums of America's cities. One hundred and twenty-one years later, there are no obvious solutions to multigenerational poverty.