When Drouet is away, Hurstwood begins to stop by the apartment and woo Carrie, finally getting her to kiss him while on a buggy ride. He next offers to take them to the theater. Hurstwood is far more refined and elegant than Drouet, and soon he comes over to play cards with Carrie and Drouet. Things go well with Drouet for a while.ĭrouet then introduces Carrie to his friend Hurstwood, the manager of one of the top bars in the city. She sneaks her things out of Minnie's house, leaving only a short note behind, and takes off. She meets him again the next day and he takes her out shopping, buying her an entire wardrobe in the process.Ĭarrie is so elated by the way he treats her that she agrees to allow him to rent an apartment for her. Carrie is loath to take the money and afraid that Minnie will find out where she got it, so instead of spending the money she decides to return it to Drouet. After much insisting he convinces her to meet him again the next day and presses twenty dollars into her hand. He kindly offers her a meal and takes her to a fine restaurant. Assuming that she has lost her new job, Carrie returns to the streets in the desperate hopes of finding new employment, but becomes frustrated when nothing is available.Īlmost ready to head home, Carrie accidentally meets Drouet on the street. She soon falls ill from the cold and takes several days to recover.
After several days of searching she finds employment in a shoe factory.Ĭarrie works hard at her job, but discovers that the salary is too low for her to pay rent and purchase clothes for the winter.
Being naturally timid, Carrie is frightened of entering the factories and shops and asking for a job, the result being that she is not hired that day. After the weekend she enters the commercial part of the city and starts looking for a job. As far as they are concerned, she is supplemental income. Carrie soon realizes that the Hansons expect her to find a job and pay them rent. Hanson arrives home that night but does not pay too much attention to her. Upon arriving in Chicago she says goodbye to him, but not before she has given him her address.Ĭarrie meets her sister Minnie Hanson and moves into one of the rooms in Minnie's apartment.
Carrie soon becomes interested in him due to his fine clothing and manners. The man sitting behind her on the train, named Drouet, starts talking to her. Caroline Meeber, known as Carrie, leaves her home at age eighteen and takes the train to Chicago.
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