This paper explains that Stephen Crane wrote "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" to tell the story of a girl of promise who succumbs
to the brutal circumstances of her life in the slums of New York City's Lower East Side. The author points out that in the book the
reader sees the way the vicious cycle of poverty leads individuals to go to extremes in order to survive but, in the end, the adversity is too difficult to overcome and everything falls apart. The paper relates that, in "Maggie", the reader can already observe the realism of Crane's
writing, which characterizes his style in his books.