![]() Maggie appears to be doomed to be swallowed up by her overpowering, violent, dark environment from the onset of the novel. Crane does not allow Maggie to have positive aspirations, making her appear less human and more animal-like than Edna. Even though the novels are written by opposite sexes with opposite setting and have quite culturally different protagonists, they share the Naturalistic themes of biological determinism, which is expressed through the use of animal imagery and animal symbolism. ![]() ![]() During the 1890’s, two American novels, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) written by Stephen Crane and The Awakening written by Kate Choplin, deal with the lives and death of two surprisingly similar young women living in different social standing and regions. ![]()
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