Right away, Crane paints a picture of a poor environment filled with violent children standing "on a pile of gravel for honor of Rum Alley". (Crane, 1). The setting is described as being on the outskirts of all civilization, horrible and chaotic. Maggie is clearly a victim of the terrible environment she finds herself in. Although she is the only flower in a pile of mud and filth, she still hasn't been able to fully flourish Crane, in a way, shows naturalism differently than other writers, since Maggie is not directly affected by her surroundings in the way that Maggie is. her family and neighbors When she found Peter, she knew he was an opportunity for her to escape from that environment. she thought of Peter as her knight in shining armor It's true, Peter was quite wealthy, but he wasn't the perfect man, the man of the highest standards that she thought he was. She didn't realize that Peter possessed the wild, childish qualities of his brother and the rest of the violent kids in the neighborhood. Being in such a class and raised the way she was, she lacked the ability to truly see Peter and society as a whole. It was this, along with her terrible life, family, and surroundings, that led her to her horrible fate. Cane wrote Maggie's death very vaguely, as if her short life had no meaning to the universe. No one really cared when Maggie died, showing how life goes on no matter