'Maggie: A girl of the streets' is written by Stephen Crane, shows that how people are evil and life is unfair by using character name Maggie. Also author uses color as imagery to show peoples feeling. The story bases in New York, around 1920's. Maggie is little girl lives in poor family with Brother Jimmy, dad, and mother. Her father and little brother Tommy died when she was young, mother was alcoholic, and her brother Jimmy was mischievous. As story progressed, the movement of story becomes more criticism with color imagery.
The red and yellow are mostly reference on family. Red defines symbol of Alcoholic and vicious mom, yellow is symbols of poor family. "A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from cobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows." It remarks that his house and neighbors were not that rich, and she lives in poor town. . Also narrator expresses how Maggie's mom was alcoholic with this quotes "rough yellow of her face and neck flared suddenly crimson." Yellow face express she is drunk and a word flared shows how she was badly drunk. Author uses yellow and flared to describe drunken mom. "Red and seamed hands", this quotes came from chapter fifteen, helps us to imagery how Maggie's mom was waiting her daughter, and how badly she waiting for daughter, also she is still drink.
Mainly, Black is important role of story, mostly at the end of novel. Mostly, black mean as death of life and sadness. "She went into the blackness of the final block" Author uses darkness to show that Maggie has no future, not being able to with herself and her lifestyle anymore. Dark rivers give us possible reason that she threw her into the river, which means she committed suicide. "At their feet the river appeared a deathly black hue" expressed that Maggie died, but it doesn't give us how did she died. Also white contains death meaning, but it doesn&a...