yuridoolan wonders
15 years ago
how Maggie died. Was she murdered by the "disgusting" man she was described to last be with? Was it suicide? What do you think?
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joekunz says
15 years ago
I was confused by the ending. I don't get how she died.
MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
yeah same here. It would be nice to know how she died, but I think it's significant in this way...
MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
...we also never find out how the baby Tommie dies. I think Crane is suggesting that society doesn't care what happens to these people...
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MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
...by telling the reader that they die but not giving any details about their death suggests to me...
MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
...that they are just a couple more impoverished lives that no one really cares about or who have no importance in society.
kimburkey says
15 years ago
why is it that the women in these stories are all dying at the end?
MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
I don't think the women in these novels died because they are women. I think they died for other reasons...
MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
...Daisy died because she represented innocence. Her personality was pretty much the death of innocence...
MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
...Edna died because she awakened from the role of a traditional wife of the time. She represents the death of the traditional housewife...
MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
...I think Maggie's death is almost the death of a dream. She wants to get out of the slums but doesn't. She suffers the fate of so many...
EmilyP1 says
15 years ago
I also noticed that they all died after going against some societal construct for the roles of women. They didn't fit the molds their time..
EmilyP1 says
15 years ago
...period.
MattyDaddy74
15 years ago
well, I would say Maggie did to an extent.
m_marrison says
14 years ago
I thought that this haziness really pulled the ending of the piece together.
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