Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York).
1893.
New York; Penguin, 2000. 1-86.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie:_A_Girl_of_the_Streets
★Early in 1893, Maggie was published at Crane's own expense by a small print shop on New York's Sixth Avenue. (ix) Under the name of Johnston Smith, "Commonest name I could think of" (x) 母の遺産による (xiv)--Methodist ministerの娘であり妻であった母は14人の子を生し、Maggie出版の前年に死んでいる
★In the closing decades of the nineteenth century New York's wealthier citizens, taking alarm at the size and condition of the city's "other half," as reformer Jacob Riis labeled the distressed classes, had launched a number of moral reform agencies, the most prominent of which adhered to the belief that poverty was caused by laziness and a life of prostitution was willingly chose by depraved women too shiftless to seek more honest means of earning money. A strong distinction was drawn between the deserving poor and those who were inherently degraded, and assistance was firmly withheld from all whom the reformers in their wisdom chose to assign to the latter category. (x)
★Although Maggie is certainly the heroine of this little drama, she does not take the stage more frequently than the others, which further contributes to the sense that this is indeed, as the subtle insists, a story of New York. (xii)
★姉弟関係が濃い Maggie and Jimmy; observerとしてのJimmy "a sort of a trance of observation" (19)
★Seducer Pete: 彼の粋なファッションに恋するMaggie "Maggie perceived that Pete brought forth all his elegance and all his knowledge of high-class customs for her benefit" (31)しかしもちろんPeteは下の上でしかない、バーテンダーである。Veblen的であり、同時にそれをworking classで繰り返す哀しみ。オリジナルなき模倣: "She wondered if the culture and refinement she had seen imitated, perhaps grotesquely, by the heroine on the stage, could be acquired by a girl who lived in a tenement house and worked in a shirt factory" (38).
★見せ物としてのフリークショウ: [Pete] took her to a dime museum where rows of meek freaks astonished her. She contemplated their deformities with awe and thought them a sort of chosen tribe. (36)
★Queer?--Maggie's mother: "Well, look-a-here, dis t'ing queers us! See? We're queered!" "It queers us! See?" "she can queer us! Don'che see?" (58)
★Anthropology?--Pete: "he was in the proper mode of missionaries. He would have fraternized with obscure Hottentots" (79)
