Chance is not currently reading any books.
I’m 54 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since May 31, 2007. My reading interests include literary/ some detective/crime.
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - American Social Realism
Well I haven't finished reading Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, I'm about a third of the way through it. She has a job in the garment industry in Manhatten about 1890. She makes collars all day on a tredell sewing machine, she lives with her mother who drinks whiskey for brekfast and busts up the furniture in the tenament flat they live in, I'm not finding anything sentimental in that.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - American Social Realism
I am interested in a closer examination of Stephen Crane's stories because they seem to lack sentimentality, being amoral, a strong element of social realism...Maggie, renders pictures of american life that are tragic and honest.