A pivotal event in this novel is the death of the title character's younger brother Tommie, and Billie fights the title character's brother in the beginning, only to fight on his side at the end.  
A pivotal event in this novel is the death of the title character's younger brother Tommie, and Billie fights the title character's brother in the beginning, only to fight on his side at the end.  Nellie is the cause of the title character's grief and causes her to return home, where her mother and older brother reject her.  After a brief affair with the bartender Pete, the title character, after much searching, finally finds an obese and greasy man who agrees to pay for her services.  Older brother Jimmie rejects the title character in, FTP, what Stephen Crane novel that centers on a "girl of the streets?"
A pivotal event in this novel is the death of the title character's younger brother Tommie, and Billie fights the title character's brother in the beginning, only to fight on his side at the end.  
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets