Your essay should report on the social conditions, opportunities, business concerns, and general hubbub of Chicago of the time with perhaps an emphasis on the opportunities, working conditions, dangers, expectations, and day-to-day lives of women and the way in which they are treated by men (Holmes, Hurstwood, Drouet). You can discuss these matters in a comparison and contrast of what you have learned from each book or as a single exposition of the picture both books provide