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A 6 page paper which examines marriage, and whether or not it was successfully achieved, in Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and Henry James’ The Europeans. No additional sources cited.
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many characters sought out in times gone by for marriage was the foundation of a society. In Stephen Cranes Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Henry James the Europeans
both offer the reader different stories, yet they are both stories that seem somewhat grim and dark in terms of relationships. They are pieces of literature that were clearly immersed
in a form of Realism in connection with literature and both offer different examinations of marriage. The following paper discusses the element of marriage, and examines whether they are pictures
of marriages being successfully achieved. The paper illustrates that neither novel offers successful marriages in the main characters lives. Marriage in the Work of Crane and James In
Cranes work the story involves a very poor family who struggles constantly. In this family there is one person, Maggie, who clearly hopes for more. She is somehow untouched by
the misery that surrounds her and yet she is also the victim of this miserable existence because of her hopes and dreams. She ultimately ends up on the streets, as
a prostitute, and then dead, never achieving the dream of marriage and a family and wealth. As such, in the character of Maggie, one clearly does not see marriage achieved
in any manner. This story primarily offers one foundational marriage and that is the marriage of Maggies parents. It is really the only powerful marriage that is evident in
the story, or the only one that truly seems to offer a perspective of realistic marriages. The father and mother are constantly at odds with one another and they constantly
berate one another, especially for drinking, although they both drink themselves to oblivion for the most part. In one section the father tells the mother, "Let the damned kid
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