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Question: The story continually returns to references to the orchard and to Maggie? . Trace these references in the story with attention to the differing versions of the story. . What is significant in these continual references? . What are we to make of the confusion Twyla experiences in her memories of these things and Roberta's admitting doubts about her own story. . Look closely at how Maggie is described. . What do the girls remember about her? . What's going on here? . The following written by Sandra K. Stanley should help you analyze Maggie's significance in the story: In contrast to Twyla and Roberta, Maggie, whose primary marker of difference is her disability, is the one character for whom the novel's ideological construction of otherness remains fixed. Yet Morrison ends her story with Roberta's anguished cry, What the hell happened to Maggie? (2698), clearly foregrounding Maggie's role in the story. Roberta's final cry is central to Morrison's story. Rather than interrogating how critics read Twyla and Roberta, we may ask: How do Twyla and Roberta read Maggie? In shifting our focus from the cultural signs encasing Twyla and Roberta to those entrapping Maggie, Morrison asks readers to investigate how they read the stigmatized differences embedded in multiple narratives of identity, including race and disability