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He fights with blind ferocity and innate savagery, even after his allies have run away. Finally, he is rescued from underneath a pile of assailants by Pete, a scornful and self-confident teenager. Almost immediately, Jimmie begins to fight with another boy. This fight is broken up by his father, who happens upon the scuffle and kicks the children into submission, dragging Jimmie home with him. Back in the foul shadows of the "gruesome" tenement doorways, father and son meet other relatives, Maggie and Tommie, respectively the family's elder daughter and infant son.

The combative Jimmie gets into a fight with Maggie, but his aggression seems only a pale imitation compared to what is to come.

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The family troops into the tenement for an encounter with Mary, the family matriarch, an alcoholic who immediately flies into a rage. After a fight, she chases her husband out of the house; he goes to drink himself into a stupor, to escape the "living hell" that is his home. The children, terrified of their mother, shrink into the corners. When Maggie breaks a plate, Mary again becomes apoplectic with fury, and Jimmie flees the apartment, seeking shelter with an old woman who lives in the same tenement house. In an example of dramatic irony, Maggie is greatly impressed by the show to which Pete takes her.

However, the reader can perceive through Crane's descriptions that the show is in fact quite crass and gaudy. The men leer at the female performers; one performer "made his face into fantastic grimaces until he looked like a pictured devil on a Japanese kite" Crane Nonetheless, Maggie is lost in her misconception of Pete and imagines she is at a very sophisticated and high-class show. As Maggie continues to see Pete, she becomes anxious about her own attire and presentation, perceiving herself to be unworthy of someone as sophisticated as Pete. Furthermore, Maggie wishes she had a friend in whom she could confide her feelings for Pete.

Her home life, in contrast, remains miserable, as Mary is continually drunk and Jimmie is not always home. Pete takes Maggie on various dates in New York City.

1. Introduction

She is most impressed by the plays and becomes wholly engrossed in the stories depicted on stage. One day, some children wait for Mary to exit a saloon, when they harass her for money. Mary, as predicted, is extremely drunk and belligerent. She shouts at the children, then noisily makes her way home. A neighbor, Mary Murphy, slams her door in Mary Johnson's face, and the latter begins to scream and kick at the closed door. Jimmie arrives home and takes his mother home.

Jimmie and his mother fight because she resists his attempts to bring her inside. The neighbors watch the spectacle, and finally Maggie exits their home. She sees the ruckus, and Jimmie takes the opportunity to force their mother inside. The fight continues, and the apartment is completely wrecked.

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Suddenly, Pete appears and surveys the damage. He tells Maggie to come with him. Mary curses Maggie and goads her into leaving permanently. In fact, Mary verbally evicts Maggie from their home, so Maggie leaves with Pete. The next night, Jimmie becomes angry as he ponders Maggie's situation with Pete.

The old woman in the apartment building confirms with Jimmie that Maggie's virtue has been "ruined" by Pete, as she was witnessed arriving home at a very late hour and asking whether Pete loves her. Jimmie returns home and tells his mother about Maggie's plight. The home is still ruined, and Mary is astounded by the news. Jimmie and Mary commiserate about Maggie's shame. Jimmie decides to take action by fighting Pete for destroying his sister's reputation.

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Outside their door, he hears the neighbors gossiping about Maggie and her moral character. Then, Jimmie meets a friend, Billie, and enlists his assistance in finding and beating Pete. Pete is a bartender, so Jimmie and Billie go to his bar. Only one other patron is there, a quiet stranger who senses trouble and distances himself from the three young men. Jimmie and Pete exchange heated words, then launch into a full-scale brawl.

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In the melee, the quiet stranger exits the bar, but he ends up sprawled on the street. Bystanders from outside hear the brawl with its sounds of broken glass and fighting, and they see the quiet stranger on the street. The brawl gains more attention until a policeman interrupts the three men. Jimmie sees the policeman in time to make his escape.

The House of Mirth

However, Pete and Billie are arrested, and Jimmie chooses not to help. The dramatic irony surrounding Maggie's perception of Pete continues and deepens. Maggie is greatly impressed by all of the places Pete brings her for dates. However, Pete is "racking his brains for amusement" Crane The reader understands that Pete really is uncultured and uneducated.

Maggie, however, remains ignorantly dazzled by her false image of him. The end of Chapter 8 features an interesting description of Maggie's interest in watching plays with Pete. Maggie is described as enjoying dramatic plays in which the audience closely follows the action: the audience "encouraged the struggling hero with cries, and jeered the villain When anybody died in the pale-green snow storms, the gallery mourned" Crane Within the novella itself, likewise, Crane employs a "gallery" watching the drama of the Johnsons—namely, their neighbors.

At the same time, we are the gallery watching the story play out as well. While we might be rooting for Maggie, however, the neighbors only encourage Mary Johnson, who is the antithesis of the struggling hero. Maggie's attraction to Pete is not confined simply to her romantic notions but also to her very real need for a protector.

Similarly, Jimmie grows up an irreverent young man without respect for the world because "he had begun with no idols that it had smashed. Though Pete claims great feats of strength he is ultimately undone by his infatuation with Nell whose charms render him helpless and, in her words, "a damn fool. We provide an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature.

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