It is a horrible thing when someone dies and there are many different ways of dealing with that death. According to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychologist, there are five stages of the grieving process. Shock/denial/numbness, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance are those five stages. These stages have no set order. In fact, you don't even need to go through all of them to complete the grieving process. The novel Maggie: Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane, tells a story about the hardships a girl named Maggie faces, while living in New York City, that ultimately leads to tragedy. After Maggie dies her brother, Jimmie, went through some of the stages of grief but never accepted her death.
             For this paper, I will be using the stages of grief according to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross to analyze Jimmie through out the grieving process. She states that there are five steps in the grieving process. Those are Shock/denial/numbness, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. First, the griever might experience shock or disbelieve that their loved one is dead. The next stage is anger. This would either be anger for oneself, pity anger, or even physical violence. The griever might next make promises with their own self or God to try to reason with them to bring back their loved one. This stage is known as the bargaining stage. After that the griever might become depressed. The person would just not care anymore about anything; not appearance, friends, activities, hobbies, and seclude themselves from the world. The final stage is acceptance. At this point they have come to terms with the person's death. They realize they must go on, even if it is hard. These stages are generally what people go through. Each person goes through all the stages differently. As long as he/she comes to accept the death, he/she will have completed the stages of grief, and their own life returns to normal.
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