One ecample of imagery can be found in Crane's focus on the illusory and fragile world his characters inhabit, which is symbolized in Pete's saloon by "a shining bar of counterfeit massiveness" and the mirrored walls that multiply the "pyramids of shimmering glasses" that lined up on the shelves of the bar. During Jimmie and Pete's fight in the saloon, the mirrors are "splintered to nothing" along with Maggie's dreams of escape.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets