Tiger’s Reviews > Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction > Status Update

1. The introductory sentences that establish two of the novel's themes - violence and moral hypocrisy: "A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him." (p3)
2. The description of young Jimmie and Maggie watching their sleeping mother after one of her drunken rampages: