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Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
The title is Sister Carrie because that is what Carrie's family calls her. The story of Caroline Meeber who leaves a small town to stay with her sister and brother-in-law in Chicago to find work and expand her horizons. She meets a traveling salesman on the train on the way to Chicago. He is a ladies' man and finds her pretty and sets himself to win her attention. She gives him her name and her sister's address and accepts his card. She tries to find work but really has no idea how to go about it, although she finds a job in a factory she finds the work hard and very discouraging and is not comfortable with the people who work there. She doesn't feel she fits. Most of her salary goes to her sister for board, but Carrie wants stylish clothes and to see sights and entertainments which her sister and brother-in-law disapprove of. He has been counting on Carrie's board to pay household expenses so he can save more money and is not at all interested in any amusements. Carrie runs into Drouet, the salesman, while she is looking for work and feeling desperate. He takes her to eat and to a theater and amuses her. He gives her money for clothes and persuades her to leave her sister's. She is happy for awhile but he introduces her to an unscrupulous friend. But Carrie continues to mature and learn wisdom during all this and rises through all lthis.