Talk:Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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I wouldn't call Maggie a novel. Its a fairly short tale, I think it closely follows Aristotles antics for what makes a tragedy. The characters, while their self-destuctive tendencies are highly developed, hardly change. Maggie sees that she must leave her family if she has any chance of survival. She makes this decision after she realizes her brother has lost faith in her. Of course her brothers insistence that Maggie had been ruined was in the same vein of his character the whole story. Maggies realization is not so much of turning point in the story, even the title says Maggie a girl of the streets, but it represents the last place her life could be saved, by her brother but he faltered in his realizations. The man who ruined Maggie, Pete, is totaly forelorn after he leaves her, being taken by the other prostitutes while declaring he's such a goo ' feller. In the end Maggie is dead and finally the raging drunk mother declares she will forgive Maggie, this is the final realization, Maggie had been an angel and her fate was brought on by the poverty, loose morals and alcoholism that was so prevalent throughout the story. Ryan Cyberpostage@hotmail.com
[edit] Reception and revisions
This article should make more mention of how the novel was received (poorly) and how Crane released a "cleaned up" version in 1896. Also it might be worthwhile to mention the intersection with George's Mother. A number of his other works, such as The Monster and the Whilomville Stories have characters that are repeated or who show up more than once. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.156.71.162 (talk) 19:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Novel vs. Short Story
I'll agree it's short. Most references I've read refer to Maggie as a novel (for example the Literature Network site), and it's generally longer than most short stories at about 63 pages and some 23,000 words. It's a little long for a novelette but it doesn't seem to meet the definition of a novella which some claim is not merely determined by size. I switched the entry back to novel simply because it seems to be generally referred to as Crane's first novel. Oswald Glinkmeyer 16:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
