oint in Maggie life, she becomes a prostitute. Whenever she walks around the town, even in the poorer districts, people try their hardest to avoid helping or even looking at her. The characters think that they are too repeatable to even be on the same side of the street as her. These characters are hypocrites because they think poorly of Maggie and think highly of themselves, but the opposite is true. If they were indeed repeatable, they would see that Maggie is a poor child that needs help. They should be willing to help her not trying their hardest to avoid her.Both Jimmie and Maggie's mother, Mrs. Johnson, display the trait of hypocrisy. They think that Maggie has 'gone to the devil' because she has committed a act that others think is bad. Mrs. Johnson says, "She had a bad heart, dat girl did, Jimmie. She was wicked the deh heart an we never knowed it" (Crane 42). Jimmie and Maggie's mother accuse Maggie of being an awful character. In fact, they are actually the ones that are awful. Because of their poor treatment of Maggie, she is forced to wander the streets alone. The pretend that they have never done anything wrong, unlike Maggie, but in truth they have committed deeds much worse. Maggie has been so neglected that she does not know what is right, and her mother's hypocrisy makes her feel worse.Many people can act hypocrite during some points of their lives. The most important thing about hypocrisy is that many times people do not know that they are being hypocritical. The reader can see this occurring in Maggie: a Girl of the Streets. The characters act hypocritical and not even know it, either through their words or by their actions. Most of the hypocrisy is directed towards the title character, and this causes her to kill herself in the end. Unfortunately, they do not know that they were pretending to be something that they are not....
