The novel, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane, takes place in the slums of New York City during the 1890’s. It is about a girl, Maggie Johnson, who is forced to grow up in a tenement house. She had a brother, Jimmie, an abusive mother, Mary, and a father who died when Maggie was young. When Maggie grew up, she met her boyfriend, Pete. In Maggie’s eyes, Pete was a sophisticated …showed first 75 words of 1104 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1104 total…not just about that. If you look at Maggie’s dreams and hopes, you will find she is nothing more than a little girl with the same ambitions of any other girl. If she had been anyone else’s child, and grown up somewhere else, she could have had a chance to achieve anything she wanted, perhaps even wealthy beyond her wildest dreams. She just grew up with the wrong family, in the wrong place.