Reading Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Alexandria
Read Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane. Shattering Victorian ideals, this raw portrait of urban poverty exposes how society creates its own outcasts. Crane's radical naturalism suggests our cherished belief in free will may be an illusion - we're all products of our environment. Yet within this deterministic view lies a surprising call for empathy that resonates in today's debates about systemic inequity.