a 3-5 page essay, focusing on close reading analysis, about Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. You should focus on developing an arguable thesis that you can analyze in real depth. General summary should be kept to a minimum so that your original close reading analysis is foregrounded. Your essay may draw on larger thematic issues, but it should be based primarily on a focused and clear thesis developed from close reading and analysis of the text.