Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Themes

Are you there, God? It's me, Maggie. See, though this book is peppered with references to religion and Christianity, as well as Irish immigrants (a notoriously Catholic bunch), religion never actua...

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has more bruises, scrapes, punches, and flying objects than a Bruce Lee movie and a Bruce Willis movie combined. There is violence from beginning to end, and it comes...

The characters in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets are impressed by some rather curious things. Instead of beauty or kindness, what inspires awe are people who display brutality, superiority, and arro...

Male self-esteem in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is all about displays of masculinity. But we're not just talking about flexing muscles and talking smack—we're talking about brutal violence, pro...

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is not a hopeful novel. Instead, it's a gloomfest. In various ways, Crane indicates that the characters are doomed to live lives of poverty and misery. Maggie is the o...

Welcome to life on the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the 20th century. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is full of beggars, over-worked manual laborers, prostitutes, the uneducated, and t...

Crane uses Maggie: A Girl of the Streets to teach us a little lesson about the bleakness of nineteenth-century tenement life. He really does his darndest to make sure readers understand that once y...

If you are looking for a more promising fulfillment of the American dream, we suggest you read The Great Gatsby instead, because you aren't going to find it in this book. In fact, Maggie is the onl...