In the books Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Maggie a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane mothers played an important factor. Mary Johnson, the mother of Maggie, and Roxy, the mother of Tom Driscoll in Pudd’ nhead Wilson, were important characters and there characteristics of being mothers are similar. Both acted like good mothers and believed they were good mothers but truly they were not. They both were naive and both acted as good mothers in public but held secrets within that would show there mistakes as mothers. Roxy and Mary bo ....