Stephan Crane's "Maggie: a Girl of the Street" is an observation of a real life and the characters of the story are depicted from their childhoods to their adult life in order to present the elaborating incidents of real life, better. The main characters of the story are Maggie and Jimmie, who are brothers and sisters. The story takes place in the quarter of a town called "Rum Alley"; the inhabitants of this quarter are low scale people and we can say that, showing apparently the inhabitants daily lives depicts pessimistic way of life. These depictions help readers to conceive the circumstances and the living condition of the characters. People of the quarter accept and adopted to live a life of worst, degrading and have no future. Though Maggie is not the only one who born into the poor conditions, but it is Maggie, who tries and desires to attempt to relieve herself of them.
Jimmie, brother of Maggie, is a little boy about ten or twelve years old and he fights with the other quarters, "Devil's Row", boys for the so-called honor of Rum Alley. His father is a man always drinking and his mother is also drinking and always pounding Tommie, the little baby brothers of Jimmie and Maggie. Only Maggie is different from all these people that she wants...
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