American Dream
Throughout society people always have one focus to motivate them to do well. That is to live a live that is absent from poverty and to live happily. To prosper and succeed, rather then to beg and fail. In reading Maggie a girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, Maggie would have to be the one that stands out most for this attempt. She strives to do what she can to get out of that house. For her it is finding some one that will love her and that will support her, so that she can reside outside of the Johnson's house. When Maggie begins to works for a sweat shop she uses her pay for fine dresses, in return she will then be cherished and loved. She meets her brother friend Jimmie and begins to go on dates with him. He takes her to fine plays and museums, showing Maggie the fine side of society.
During the plays that Pete takes her to, the ending tends to shadow Maggie and her take on the living the American Dream. The hero is always poor in the play and......
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