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Stephen Crane's Necessary Violence The violence Stephen Crane depicts in his novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, permeated the environment, which in turn caused the residents of the Bowery to become violent toward each other. There was so much violence in the air that young children fought even younger children; parents beat their own children; and even children fought their parents. The populace of the Bowery was most definitely affected by their surroundings. The …

…hnson family is most likely an extreme example, the general theme is still the same. In the "rough" streets of New York City in the late nineteenth century, one would expect people to be angry at their condition. Crane saw that there was no way he could tell a story about the tenements without showing that the pain of the poor put them at each other's throats and made life for all of them miserable.