Answer :
Answer:
- From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant 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 of yellow convicts came from the shadow of a building and crawled slowly along the river's bank.
(Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets)
Explanation:
'Realistic Fiction' is described as the narrative that involves fictional characters with a true-to-life setting aiming to portray the circumstances and struggles faced by people in the actual world and their probable consequences.
As per the question, the excerpt from 'Maggie; A Girl of Streets' exemplifies realistic fiction as it depicts a lifelike setting('squat...ignorant stables...dock at the river' showing Bowery, New York) to portray the social problem of the 'poverty' and the miseries caused by it eventually leading people to take uncalled steps as Maggie did by committing sui-cide.
What social issue is raised through the description of the woman's environment?
✔ poverty
What social issue do the laborers and convicts represent?
✔ crime and violence
What emotional impression does the scene have on you? Check any boxes that apply.
✔sympathy
✔cynicism
✔scorn
✔fear