Mamie Analysis

Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indianatown and dreamed of romance and big things offsomewhere the way the railroad trains all ran.

She could see the smoke of the engines get lost downwhere the streaks of steel flashed in the sun andwhen the newspapers came in on the morning mailshe knew there was a big Chicago far off, where allthe trains ran.

She got tired of the barber shop boys and the post officechatter and the church gossip and the old pieces theband played on the Fourth of July and Decoration Day

And sobbed at her fate and beat her head against thebars and was going to kill herself

When the thought came to her that if she was going todie she might as well die struggling for a clutch ofromance among the streets of Chicago.

She has a job now at six dollars a week in the basementof the Boston Store

And even now she beats her head against the bars in thesame old way and wonders if there is a bigger placethe railroads run to from Chicago where maybethere isromanceand big thingsand real dreamsthat never go smash.

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