In Maggie: a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane, the disheartening images of Riis's photographs are realistically depicted through the story of young family struggling through life in Rum Alley. There, life is a picture of deterioration, passivity and despair. "From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignornant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a moment and regarded the fight. The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a railing and watched. Over on the Island, a worm
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