. Aside from his contrasting views, the dialogue among Crane's character's is unavoidable and at times somewhat difficult to follow. "The conversation has the exactitude of the dull repetitious speech of half-drunken boasters, and Crane is responsible for the fictional theory that such repetition is realistic art"(Quinn, 534). Perhaps the best example of the uneducated dialogue between the characters is most evident at the beginning of the novel when Maggie and her bother Jimmy are just children. They have both just come home only to be greeted with the loud crying of a baby's voice:
             Ah, what deh hell!, cried Jimmie. Shut u
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