Promoting and Resisting uplift in Maggie

I believe that Maggie a Girl of the Streets does in fact promote uplift. The story promotes uplift by showing that if impoverished people do not improve their situations they will eventually be swallowed up by their environment much as Maggie was in her final scene. I think the purpose of this story is to promote uplift, however, it also resists it by showing that Maggie is ultimately unable to escape her circumstances and the harder she tries he more she fails.