For Crane, he uses Maggie: A Girl of the Streets to tell a story of a girl, born into a life of misery, who has no way of escaping it. Thus, the story strikes an emotional chord in the readers’ hearts and the audience empathizes with Maggie’s conditions. Crane believes in the concept of "lifting the veil" and envisions a society that can look past physical differences. He wants the reader to understand the …showed first 75 words of 324 total…

…showed last 75 words of 324 total…to New York City to live in a medical students' boardinghouse while freelancing his way to a literary career. While alternating bohemian student life and explorations of the Bowery slums with visits to genteel relatives in the country near Port Jervis, N.Y., Crane wrote his first book, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a sympathetic study of an innocent and abused slum girl's descent into prostitution and her eventual suicide. Bibliography Stephen Crane's Maggie