the characters in the story. (Rahn) Authors, such as Stephen Crane, wrote the stories about the characters and their reactions rather than based on plot. He relied on strong characters rather than a strong plot to carry his story forward. Stephen Crane was one of the most popular realist writers of the nineteenth century. He wrote the novels Maggie, a Girl of the Streets: a Story of New York, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Open Boat. Stephen Crane
experienced. Stephen Crane was one of the first authors in American history to employ the concept of realism into his novels. Realism is the depiction of ordinary society as it actually occurred, without employing any false or romantic ideas. Stephen Crane used his novels and life experiences to reveal the reality of the time, and to introduce realism
newborn she is prohibited from seeing has a hidden meaning. It leads to the assumption she is suffering severely. Inabilities to meet her motherly expectations are also symbolic. This shows that a woman is addressed more of a child than an adult did. A Girl of the
Stephen Crane is good at demonstrating how the combination of social, economic environments, and religion impacts a character. In Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Crane uses Maggie’s upbringings as a way to show how social environments affect greatly our decision making and how even characters like Maggie whom have already walked a tragic path or marked as disgrace by society can also be granted a way out of their misfortunes by simply becoming socially accepted. For example, Crane’s emphasis
literary movement, Stephen Crane became a prominent figure in the late 1800s. Using his personal history and his literary experience, Crane became one of the most influential writers of his time. Influenced by both his personal life and his environment, Stephen Crane’s literary style in The Red Badge of Courage effectively displayed a strong naturalist background, which gained popular reactions
each person wants to have good health, be wealthy and be prosperous. In Of Mice and Men and Maggie, a Girl from the Streets each person has a different understanding of the American Dream but they both know they want more substantial and finer lives than the ones they already have. For George and Lennie, their thought of the American Dream was to live on a ranch with many farm animals and no boss, but for Maggie it seemed as if any life out of her bad life was ideal. The theme of an American Dream incorporates
intend for a double standard to be present, but it is still interesting to pull that out as a discussion for events in a novel. For Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, the double standard is not one of the key points of the novel but it does add to the discussion about the views of womanhood that Crane integrates within his story. Women are characterized in Maggie by similar actions that add to the idea of a double standard. My argument is that Crane portrays women as a creature made to fulfill
system. Oppression of a certain group, in this case women, is perpetuated by the oppressors, rather the patriarchs who create and manipulate societal values in order to objectify and limit women. Both Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets examining two distinct female characters who are eventually strangled by the shared threads of oppression and sexual independence. Their rebellion against such subjugating environments is not only indicative of the state of nineteenth