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Course Hero. "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Study Guide." Course Hero. 20 Sep. 2017. Web. 4 June 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Maggie-A-Girl-of-the-Streets/>.
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| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | A small boy named Jimmie Johnson fights for the honor of his neighborhood, Rum Alley, a section of the Bowery in Lower M... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | "The father," as Mr. Johnson is called, and Jimmie approach "a careening building" where "a dozen gruesome doorways gave... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Jimmie and the old woman listen to the screams and roars of the mother beating Maggie. The old woman is known to beg for... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Baby Tommie dies and is carried away in a "white, insignificant coffin," and Maggie steals a flower to place in his hand... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | Somehow Maggie grows up pretty, and "none of the dirt of Rum Alley seemed to be in her veins." As a child she was disgui... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Pete notices Maggie, and tells her, "Say, Mag, I'm stuck on yer shape. It's outa sight." He further embellishes his stor... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | Pete takes Maggie to a place in the Bowery where an orchestra plays waltzes, beer glasses clink, and smoke clouds drift ... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | Thoughts of Pete make Maggie hate all her dresses. She envies well-dressed women who "smiled with serenity as though for... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | The mother stumbles out of a saloon, and urchins follow her, taunting her along the way. She makes her way to a door and... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Jimmie knows it is not polite to ruin a friend's sister. Does Pete know? The old woman tells Jimmie how Maggie was cryin... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | Pete pours a beer for a quiet stranger in a nice saloon. Jimmie and his friend enter. Pete is watchful, and the stranger... Read More |
| Chapter 12 | Maggie and Pete attend a show and drink beer. Her dependency on Pete grows apparent: "From her eyes had been plucked all... Read More |
| Chapter 13 | Jimmie returns home a few days after the fight with Pete. The mother is still raving about Maggie's "wickedness," as she... Read More |
| Chapter 14 | Three weeks later Maggie and Pete enter a "hilarious hall," a smoke-filled establishment of music and clinking beer glas... Read More |
| Chapter 15 | Hattie, the "forlorn woman," slowly searches the streets and saloon doors of the Bowery for Jimmie. She "encounter[s] hi... Read More |
| Chapter 16 | Pete does not think he ruined Maggie. If he knew "her soul could never smile again," he would blame it on the mother and... Read More |
| Chapter 17 | Several months later, on a wet evening in the theater district, "a girl of the painted cohorts of the city" moves throug... Read More |
| Chapter 18 | Pete drinks with several laughing women in a saloon, having arrived "at that stage of drunkenness where affection is fel... Read More |
| Chapter 19 | The mother is eating "like a fat monk in a picture" when Jimmie enters and says, "Well ... Mag's dead." At first the mot... Read More |
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