Oppose To Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets
Naturalism made his introduction in American literature in the nineteenth century. In 1878, Henry James published a story, Daisy Miller, that made his reputation. A romantic tale of a beautiful American girl and her adventures in Europe. Oppose to Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) by Stephen Crane was about the story of Maggie and her family, who lived in the Bowery district in New York, which is a rough neighborhood.Both authors were a famous in their own style. They both had a different style of writing and social issues that they represented in those two books. In Daisy Miller, Henry James was more about American versus European society, wherein Maggie Crane was emphasizing on the harsh live people were living in. The point of view
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He is showing us the characters from the book are in a bad way, and our narrator does not seem to care. Their life is extremely rough for them, but the story goes on, it is not the narrator’s problem. This is a classical naturalist narrator. They are giving us facts. Also, because the narrator is not involved in the story; the rough conditions they are going through do not directly affect him. However, with this kind of narrator we are able to go insights into each character as the story goes, so we get an up-close and personal picture of how hard are their lives, which is the aim of a naturalist narrator. The setting of the book was in Bowery in New York City at the end of the nineteenth century. “Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter. A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against a hundred windows. Long streamers of garments fluttered from fire-escapes. In all unhandy places, there were buckets, brooms, rags, and bottles. […] A thousand odors of cooking food came forth to the street. The building quivered and creaked from the weight of humanity stamping about in its bowels.” Crane is showing how hard the life was in the lower class of society. It was the survival of the fittest. Death was a common thing where they lived. For example, the death of Tommy and Maggie's father. Their death was barely talked in the book as if their death were meaningless to what was happening in the
He is showing us the characters from the book are in a bad way, and our narrator does not seem to care. Their life is extremely rough for them, but the story goes on, it is not the narrator’s problem. This is a classical naturalist narrator. They are giving us facts. Also, because the narrator is not involved in the story; the rough conditions they are going through do not directly affect him. However, with this kind of narrator we are able to go insights into each character as the story goes, so we get an up-close and personal picture of how hard are their lives, which is the aim of a naturalist narrator. The setting of the book was in Bowery in New York City at the end of the nineteenth century. “Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter. A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against a hundred windows. Long streamers of garments fluttered from fire-escapes. In all unhandy places, there were buckets, brooms, rags, and bottles. […] A thousand odors of cooking food came forth to the street. The building quivered and creaked from the weight of humanity stamping about in its bowels.” Crane is showing how hard the life was in the lower class of society. It was the survival of the fittest. Death was a common thing where they lived. For example, the death of Tommy and Maggie's father. Their death was barely talked in the book as if their death were meaningless to what was happening in the