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1,633 | 766_chapter_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I corroborate Mr. Dick, and choose a profession. David decides not to tell Steerforth about Little Em'ly's emotional reaction to Martha's visit, as he feels that she did not intend to reveal as much as she did. During the coach journey home, David receives a letter from Betsey asking him what profession he has decided ... | [
"When I awoke in the morning I thought very much of little Em'ly, and her\nemotion last night, after Martha had left. I felt as if I had come into\nthe knowledge of those domestic weaknesses and tendernesses in a sacred\nconfidence, and that to disclose them, even to Steerforth, would be\nwrong. I had no gentler fe... |
1,634 | 766_chapter_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | My first dissipation. David is happy with his new independent life, but he misses Agnes. Wondering why Steerforth has not been to visit him, he goes to enquire at Mrs. Steerforth's house. Steerforth is away visiting friends, but Mrs. Steerforth and Rosa Dartle entertain David by talking constantly in praise of Steerfor... | [
"It was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself, and\nto feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe, when he had\ngot into his fortification, and pulled his ladder up after him. It was a\nwonderfully fine thing to walk about town with the key of my house in my\npocket, and to know th... |
1,635 | 766_chapter_xxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Good and bad angels. The next day, David is suffering from a hangover. He receives a letter from Agnes asking him to meet her, which he does. Full of repentance for his condition the previous night, he tells her that she is his good angel. Agnes warns him that Steerforth is his "bad angel," and that he has a negative i... | [
"I was going out at my door on the morning after that deplorable day of\nheadache, sickness, and repentance, with an odd confusion in my mind\nrelative to the date of my dinner-party, as if a body of Titans had\ntaken an enormous lever and pushed the day before yesterday some months\nback, when I saw a ticket-porte... |
1,636 | 766_chapter_xxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I fall into captivity. David worries about how far Agnes will take her devotion to her father - implying that she may marry Uriah to remove the weight of caring for her from her father. David slightly mistrusts Steerforth now, and feels grateful that he is not with him. Mr. Spenlow invites David to his home and introdu... | [
"I saw no more of Uriah Heep, until the day when Agnes left town. I was\nat the coach office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was\nhe, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance. It was some small\nsatisfaction to me to observe his spare, short-waisted, high-shouldered,\nmulberry-coloured great-co... |
1,637 | 766_chapter_xxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommy Traddles. David visits Traddles, who lives in a poor part of the city. Traddles lives in one room, with very little furniture in it. Traddles has scraped together the money to pay for his training to be a lawyer. He is engaged to a curate's daughter, whom he loves very much. She has agreed to wait for him until h... | [
"It may have been in consequence of Mrs. Crupp's advice, and, perhaps,\nfor no better reason than because there was a certain similarity in the\nsound of the word skittles and Traddles, that it came into my head, next\nday, to go and look after Traddles. The time he had mentioned was more\nthan out, and he lived in... |
1,638 | 766_chapter_xxviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Micawber's gauntlet. Mr. and Mrs. Micawber and Traddles accept David's invitation to dine at his apartment. Mrs. Crupp reluctantly agrees to cook for the party, but her dishes are unappetizing and the meat is undercooked. The guests re-cook the meat on the fire in David's rooms. The party is interrupted by Littimer... | [
"Until the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found\nold friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee. In my love-lorn\ncondition, my appetite languished; and I was glad of it, for I felt\nas though it would have been an act of perfidy towards Dora to have a\nnatural relish for my dinner. The quant... |
1,639 | 766_chapter_xxix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I visit Steerforth at his home, again. David accompanies Steerforth to Mrs. Steerforth's home. While Steerforth is occupied with his mother, Rosa Dartle asks David why he has been keeping Steerforth so engrossed that he has not been home. When David protests that he has not seen Steerforth until last night, Rosa is sho... | [
"I mentioned to Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted leave of\nabsence for a short time; and as I was not in the receipt of any salary,\nand consequently was not obnoxious to the implacable Jorkins, there was\nno difficulty about it. I took that opportunity, with my voice sticking\nin my throat, and my sight f... |
1,640 | 766_chapter_xxx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A loss. David goes to Yarmouth to visit Peggotty and Mr. Barkis. On the way, he visits Mr. Omer, who tells him that Little Em'ly has seemed unsettled recently, in spite of the fact that Ham has obtained a comfortable house for them both to live in after they are married. When David arrives at Peggotty's house, he finds... | [
"I got down to Yarmouth in the evening, and went to the inn. I knew that\nPeggotty's spare room--my room--was likely to have occupation enough\nin a little while, if that great Visitor, before whose presence all\nthe living must give place, were not already in the house; so I betook\nmyself to the inn, and dined th... |
1,641 | 766_chapter_xxxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A greater loss. Mr. Barkis has hoarded a small fortune during his lifetime, and leaves Peggotty a generous sum. He also leaves some money to Mr. Peggotty. David uses his training as a proctor to execute the will. The adult David interrupts his narration to say that he fears to tell what happened next, as it is too pain... | [
"It was not difficult for me, on Peggotty's solicitation, to resolve to\nstay where I was, until after the remains of the poor carrier should\nhave made their last journey to Blunderstone. She had long ago bought,\nout of her own savings, a little piece of ground in our old churchyard\nnear the grave of 'her sweet ... |
1,642 | 766_chapter_xxxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The beginning of a long journey. David still loves Steerforth, though he recognizes his unworthiness and knows that they will never renew their friendship. Mr. Peggotty tells David that if he should ever meet Steerforth, he will kill him. He plans to begin his search for Little Em'ly in London. Mrs. Gummidge promises t... | [
"What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more tow... |
1,643 | 766_chapter_xxxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Blissful. Upset over Little Em'ly, David takes refuge in his love for Dora. He walks round and round her house, without ever daring to call in. David brings Peggotty to London to prove Mr. Barkis's will at the Doctors' Commons. There, David and Peggotty come across Mr. Murdstone, who is getting a new marriage license. ... | [
"All this time, I had gone on loving Dora, harder than ever. Her idea was\nmy refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me,\neven for the loss of my friend. The more I pitied myself, or pitied\nothers, the more I sought for consolation in the image of Dora. The\ngreater the accumulation of dece... |
1,644 | 766_chapter_xxxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | My aunt astonishes me. David writes to Agnes to tell her of his engagement. The very thought of Agnes has a soothing effect on him. Traddles visits David and tells him about his sweetheart, Sophy, who is one of ten children and lives in Devon. Sophy appears to look after her whole family, educating the youngest childre... | [
"I wrote to Agnes as soon as Dora and I were engaged. I wrote her a long\nletter, in which I tried to make her comprehend how blest I was, and\nwhat a darling Dora was. I entreated Agnes not to regard this as a\nthoughtless passion which could ever yield to any other, or had the\nleast resemblance to the boyish fan... |
1,645 | 766_chapter_xxxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Depression. Talking with David, Betsey berates Little Em'ly for her foolishness and for causing misery to her family. Betsey asks David whether Dora is not silly and light-headed, and whether David expects their marriage to provide a "party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionary. She warns D... | [
"As soon as I could recover my presence of mind, which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt's intelligence, I proposed to Mr. Dick to come round to the chandler's shop, and take possession of the bed which Mr. Peggotty had lately vacated. The chandler's shop being in Hungerford Market, and H... |
1,646 | 766_chapter_xxxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enthusiasm. Feeling strengthened after his meeting with Agnes, David is determined to triumph over adversity and to win Dora. He calls on Dr. Strong. Dr. Strong tells David that Jack Maldon is back from India, as he could not stand the climate, and has been found a job in the patents office. Dr. Strong agrees that Davi... | [
"I began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then\nstarted for Highgate. I was not dispirited now. I was not afraid of the\nshabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys. My whole manner\nof thinking of our late misfortune was changed. What I had to do, was,\nto show my aunt that her pas... |
1,647 | 766_chapter_xxxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A little cold water. When Dora is staying at Julia Mills's house, David tells her that he is now poor. At first Dora does not believe him, but when she realizes that he is serious, she cries. David finally manages to soothe her, as one might soothe a child. She refuses to hear any more about David's poverty or the prac... | [
"My new life had lasted for more than a week, and I was stronger than\never in those tremendous practical resolutions that I felt the crisis\nrequired. I continued to walk extremely fast, and to have a general idea\nthat I was getting on. I made it a rule to take as much out of myself\nas I possibly could, in my wa... |
1,648 | 766_chapter_xxxviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A dissolution of partnership. With Traddles's help, David manages to learn shorthand. One day, Mr. Spenlow coldly summons David to a coffee house near the Doctors' Commons. There, Miss Murdstone is awaiting them. She produces one of David's love letters, which she has confiscated from Dora. David admits that he made Do... | [
"I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary\nDebates, to cool. It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately,\nand one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance\nI may honestly admire. I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and\nmystery of stenography (which cos... |
1,649 | 766_chapter_xxxix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wickfield and Heep. After Mr. Wickfield's death, his law firm, never very prosperous, suffers from lack of good management. It competes for scraps of business on any terms. David goes to Canterbury to visit Agnes at Mr. Wickfield's house. There, he finds that Uriah and his mother are now in charge of the house and Mr. ... | [
"My aunt, beginning, I imagine, to be made seriously uncomfortable by my\nprolonged dejection, made a pretence of being anxious that I should go\nto Dover, to see that all was working well at the cottage, which was\nlet; and to conclude an agreement, with the same tenant, for a longer\nterm of occupation. Janet was... |
1,650 | 766_chapter_xl | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The wanderer. While walking across London, David encounters Mr. Peggotty, who has been to continental Europe in search of Little Em'ly. While Mr. Peggotty is talking to David at an inn, David notices Martha listening just outside the door. Mr. Peggotty heard reports of sightings of Little Em'ly in Switzerland with Stee... | [
"We had a very serious conversation in Buckingham Street that night,\nabout the domestic occurrences I have detailed in the last chapter. My\naunt was deeply interested in them, and walked up and down the room with\nher arms folded, for more than two hours afterwards. Whenever she was\nparticularly discomposed, she... |
1,651 | 766_chapter_xli | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dora's aunts. Dora's aunts reply to David's letter, saying that he is welcome to visit and discuss his hopes of marrying Dora. David sets off, taking Traddles with him. Traddles tells David that his fiance's family is not enthusiastic about their plans to marry, as Sophy is so useful to them. They take consolation in t... | [
"At last, an answer came from the two old ladies. They presented their\ncompliments to Mr. Copperfield, and informed him that they had given his\nletter their best consideration, 'with a view to the happiness of\nboth parties'--which I thought rather an alarming expression, not\nonly because of the use they had mad... |
1,652 | 766_chapter_xlii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mischief. The adult David reflects that in everything in life, he has always been thoroughly in earnest, gaining his ends from "steady, plain, hard-working qualities. Agnes and her father visit Dr. Strong. Agnes finds a lodging near the Strongs' for the Heeps. Agnes and Dora become friends, and Dora asks David why he w... | [
"I feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript\nis intended for no eyes but mine, how hard I worked at that tremendous\nshort-hand, and all improvement appertaining to it, in my sense of\nresponsibility to Dora and her aunts. I will only add, to what I have\nalready written of my perseveran... |
1,653 | 766_chapter_xliii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Another retrospect. David is now twenty-one years old, and making a good living reporting on Parliamentary debates for newspapers and writing other pieces for magazines. David marries Dora, and Agnes and Sophy are bridesmaids | [
"Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Let me\nstand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying\nthe shadow of myself, in dim procession.",
"Weeks, months, seasons, pass along. They seem little more than a summer\nday and a winter evening. Now, the Common where I walk w... |
1,654 | 766_chapter_xliv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our housekeeping. David and Dora begin their married life. Dora proves to be inept at housekeeping. Their servant, Mary Anne, is also incompetent. When David asks Dora to bring Mary Anne into line, Dora pouts and accuses David of blaming her for being a disagreeable wife. David asks Betsey to advise Dora on housekeepin... | [
"It was a strange condition of things, the honeymoon being over, and the\nbridesmaids gone home, when I found myself sitting down in my own\nsmall house with Dora; quite thrown out of employment, as I may say, in\nrespect of the delicious old occupation of making love.",
"It seemed such an extraordinary thing to ... |
1,655 | 766_chapter_xlv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Dick fulfils my aunt's prediction. Mrs. Markleham is much fonder of pleasure than her daughter Annie, but tries to make Dr. Strong feel that, as an old man, he is unable to keep Annie amused. Mrs. Markleham offers to take Annie to all kinds of amusements, making out that this is an act of charity. Dr. Strong willin... | [
"It was some time now, since I had left the Doctor. Living in his\nneighbourhood, I saw him frequently; and we all went to his house on two\nor three occasions to dinner or tea. The Old Soldier was in permanent\nquarters under the Doctor's roof. She was exactly the same as ever, and\nthe same immortal butterflies h... |
1,656 | 766_chapter_xlvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Intelligence. David is acquiring some fame as a writer. He is passing Mrs. Steerforth's house one day when a maid comes out and tells him that Rosa Dartle would like to see him. David finds her in the garden, and she summons Littimer and instructs him to tell David what has happened with Steerforth and Little Em'ly. Li... | [
"I must have been married, if I may trust to my imperfect memory for\ndates, about a year or so, when one evening, as I was returning from a\nsolitary walk, thinking of the book I was then writing--for my success\nhad steadily increased with my steady application, and I was engaged at\nthat time upon my first work ... |
1,657 | 766_chapter_xlvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Martha. David and Mr. Peggotty follow Martha to a polluted and run-down area, where she is standing and staring at the river. When they speak to her, she grows hysterical. She tells them that she is like the river, in that she is from an innocent rural area but has come to the town and become corrupted. She feels that ... | [
"We were now down in Westminster. We had turned back to follow her,\nhaving encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was\nthe point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading\nstreets. She proceeded so quickly, when she got free of the two currents\nof passengers setting towards an... |
1,658 | 766_chapter_xlviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Domestic. David has published his first book, which is a success. David and Dora have been married for a year and a half, and they have given up on housekeeping. They have another servant who cheats them and is eventually transported as a convict to Australia. David worries that Dora's lax housekeeping actively encoura... | [
"I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the\npunctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very\nsuccessful. I was not stunned by the praise which sounded in my ears,\nnotwithstanding that I was keenly alive to it, and thought better of\nmy own performance, I have lit... |
1,659 | 766_chapter_xlix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I am involved in mystery. David receives a mysterious letter from Mr. Micawber, in which he says that his former peace of mind and self-respect are shattered. He asks David to meet him in London, so that he can explain. At the same time, Traddles receives a similar letter from Mrs. Micawber, asking him to intercede bet... | [
"I received one morning by the post, the following letter, dated\nCanterbury, and addressed to me at Doctor's Commons; which I read with\nsome surprise:",
"'MY DEAR SIR,",
"'Circumstances beyond my individual control have, for a considerable\nlapse of time, effected a severance of that intimacy which, in the\nl... |
1,660 | 766_chapter_l | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Peggotty's dream comes true. Mr. Peggotty continues his search for Little Em'ly, never losing hope. Martha seeks out David and says that she has news for Mr. Peggotty; she has been to his house, but he is not at home, so she left a note for him to meet her. Martha takes David to the slum dwelling where she lives. I... | [
"By this time, some months had passed since our interview on the bank\nof the river with Martha. I had never seen her since, but she had\ncommunicated with Mr. Peggotty on several occasions. Nothing had come of\nher zealous intervention; nor could I infer, from what he told me, that\nany clue had been obtained, for... |
1,661 | 766_chapter_li | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The beginning of a longer journey. Mr. Peggotty tells David and Betsey Little Em'ly's story after she escaped from Littimer. Hysterical, she ran to a beach, believing that her home was there, and collapsed. She was rescued by a local woman, who looked after her until she recovered. Little Em'ly went to France and thenc... | [
"It was yet early in the morning of the following day, when, as I was\nwalking in my garden with my aunt (who took little other exercise\nnow, being so much in attendance on my dear Dora), I was told that Mr.\nPeggotty desired to speak with me. He came into the garden to meet me\nhalf-way, on my going towards the g... |
1,662 | 766_chapter_lii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I assist at an explosion. David, Betsey, Mr. Dick, and Traddles meet Mr. Micawber in Canterbury, as he requested. He says that he has consulted Traddles, who is now a lawyer, regarding what he is about to reveal. He asks them all to give him a five-minute start, and then to follow him to Uriah Heep's office at Mr. Wick... | [
"When the time Mr. Micawber had appointed so mysteriously, was within\nfour-and-twenty hours of being come, my aunt and I consulted how we\nshould proceed; for my aunt was very unwilling to leave Dora. Ah! how\neasily I carried Dora up and down stairs, now!",
"We were disposed, notwithstanding Mr. Micawber's stip... |
1,663 | 766_chapter_liii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Another retrospect. Dora is dying, and David feels terribly alone without her company. She asks to see Agnes. Dora tells David that she believes that she married too young, and that perhaps it would have been better if they have loved each other as boy and girl, and then forgotten each other. She feels that if she had ... | [
"I must pause yet once again. O, my child-wife, there is a figure in the\nmoving crowd before my memory, quiet and still, saying in its innocent\nlove and childish beauty, Stop to think of me--turn to look upon the\nLittle Blossom, as it flutters to the ground!",
"I do. All else grows dim, and fades away. I am ag... |
1,664 | 766_chapter_liv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Micawber's transactions. A grief-stricken David decides to go abroad for a time. Mr. Micawber makes arrangements to pay back Betsey's loan. All the Micawbers are studying farming in preparation for their new life working the land in Australia. Mrs. Micawber thinks that when her husband becomes financially successfu... | [
"This is not the time at which I am to enter on the state of my mind\nbeneath its load of sorrow. I came to think that the Future was walled\nup before me, that the energy and action of my life were at an end, that\nI never could find any refuge but in the grave. I came to think so, I\nsay, but not in the first sho... |
1,665 | 766_chapter_lv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tempest. David writes to Little Em'ly, reporting the message that Ham gave him for her. Little Em'ly writes back to David with a message for Ham, thanking him for his kindness to her and bidding him farewell, as she is soon to sail for Australia. David goes to Yarmouth to deliver the letter in person to Ham. While Davi... | [
"I now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by\nan infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages,\nthat, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen it growing larger\nand larger as I advanced, like a great tower in a plain, and throwing\nits fore-cast shadow eve... |
1,666 | 766_chapter_lvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The new wound, and the old. David still thinks of Steerforth at his best. He volunteers to take Steerforth's body to his mother's house and break the news to her. When he arrives, he learns that Mrs. Steerforth is now an invalid and confined to her room. David goes to see her, and finds that she is occupying her son's ... | [
"No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in\nthat hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour--no need to\nhave said, 'Think of me at my best!' I had done that ever; and could I\nchange now, looking on this sight!",
"They brought a hand-bier, and laid him on it, and covered him ... |
1,667 | 766_chapter_lvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The emigrants. David goes to visit the Micawbers and Mr. Peggotty, as they are preparing to leave for Australia. David and Mr. Micawber agree that the news of the deaths of Ham and Steerforth must be kept from Mr. Peggotty and Little Em'ly for the time being. Since Mr. Micawber's unmasking of Uriah, Uriah has several t... | [
"One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of\nthese emotions. It was, to conceal what had occurred, from those who\nwere going away; and to dismiss them on their voyage in happy ignorance.\nIn this, no time was to be lost.",
"I took Mr. Micawber aside that same night, and confided to him t... |
1,668 | 766_chapter_lviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Absence. David travels through Italy and settles in a valley in Switzerland. He is oppressed with sorrow at the loss of Dora, Steerforth, and Ham. One day, he receives a letter from Agnes. She writes that she is prospering and that she trusts that David will turn his suffering to good. He feels the sadness lift from hi... | [
"It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the\nghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many\nunavailing sorrows and regrets.",
"I went away from England; not knowing, even then, how great the shock\nwas, that I had to bear. I left all who were dear to me, and went away;... |
1,669 | 766_chapter_lix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Return. On David's return to England, he goes to visit Traddles. He asks a waiter at an inn near Traddles's office whether he knows an up-and-coming lawyer of that name. The waiter does not, and loses interest when David says Traddles has only been practicing for three years. David reflects that England, with its rigid... | [
"I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining,\nand I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year. I\nwalked from the Custom House to the Monument before I found a coach;\nand although the very house-fronts, looking on the swollen gutters, were\nlike old friends to me, I cou... |
1,670 | 766_chapter_lx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Agnes. David visits Betsey, who reports that Mr. Micawber is happy in Australia and has begun to pay off his debt to her. Mr. Dick is still doing his copying work, which keeps all thoughts of King Charles I out of his head. Mr. Wickfield has recovered his former contentment, and Agnes is prospering with her school. Dav... | [
"My aunt and I, when we were left alone, talked far into the night. How\nthe emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully;\nhow Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on\naccount of those 'pecuniary liabilities', in reference to which he had\nbeen so business-like as b... |
1,671 | 766_chapter_lxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I am shown two interesting penitents. David is living with Betsey in Dover and is a successful writer. Traddles and Sophy are blissfully happy, and Sophy is working as Traddles's clerk. Since David became famous, he has received a letter from Mr. Creakle, who is now a magistrate. Mr. Creakle writes that he has develope... | [
"For a time--at all events until my book should be completed, which would\nbe the work of several months--I took up my abode in my aunt's house at\nDover; and there, sitting in the window from which I had looked out at\nthe moon upon the sea, when that roof first gave me shelter, I quietly\npursued my task.",
"In... |
1,672 | 766_chapter_lxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A light shines on my way. David asks Betsey if she knows anything more about Agnes's mysterious sweetheart. Betsey says that she believes that Agnes is soon to be married. David cannot bear not to know whom Agnes loves, and asks her. She will not say, and bursts into tears. David guesses that he is the one she loves. H... | [
"The year came round to Christmas-time, and I had been at home above\ntwo months. I had seen Agnes frequently. However loud the general voice\nmight be in giving me encouragement, and however fervent the emotions\nand endeavours to which it roused me, I heard her lightest word of\npraise as I heard nothing else.",
... |
1,673 | 766_chapter_lxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A visitor. David has been happily married to Agnes for ten years, and they have children. One day, they have a visitor. It is Mr. Peggotty, who looks strong and healthy. Mr. Peggotty reports that he and Little Em'ly have a farm, and though they have had to work hard, they are prosperous. Little Em'ly has received many ... | [
"What I have purposed to record is nearly finished; but there is yet an\nincident conspicuous in my memory, on which it often rests with delight,\nand without which one thread in the web I have spun would have a\nravelled end.",
"I had advanced in fame and fortune, my domestic joy was perfect, I had\nbeen married... |
1,674 | 766_chapter_lxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A last retrospect. David reflects on his life at the time when he finished writing his story. He sees himself and Agnes surrounded by their children; Betsey, over eighty years old but still active and upright; and Peggotty, still doing her needlework just as she did when David was a child. Betsey, who for so long compa... | [
"And now my written story ends. I look back, once more--for the last\ntime--before I close these leaves.",
"I see myself, with Agnes at my side, journeying along the road of life.\nI see our children and our friends around us; and I hear the roar of\nmany voices, not indifferent to me as I travel on.",
"What fa... |
1,707 | 233_chapters_1-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Caroline Meeber, or Carrie, leaves her home in Columbia City to go live in Chicago. Only age eighteen, she takes very little with her in the way of belongings as she gets on the train. She further has a slip of paper with her sister's address in Chicago on it so she will have a place to stay. Dreiser tells his reader t... | [
"When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total\noutfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin\nsatchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse,\ncontaining her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van\nBuren Street, and four dol... |
1,708 | 233_chapters_9-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood's family is introduced in this chapter, including his seventeen year old daughter Jessica, his twenty year old son George, Jr. and his wife Julia. The family lives in a ten room house but is clearly not a part of the upper classes. Mrs. Hurstwood, we are told, is relying on her children to become part of the ... | [
"Hurstwood's residence on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, was a brick\nbuilding of a very popular type then, a three-story affair with the\nfirst floor sunk a very little below the level of the street. It had a\nlarge bay window bulging out from the second floor, and was graced in\nfront by a small grassy plot, ... |
1,709 | 233_chapters_17-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie is exuberant over her part, and now has the ambition of becoming a great actress. Hurstwood is amazed, when he meets her in the park, by her excitement. He is also a member of the lodge that Drouet belongs to and as a result he can get tickets to her performance. When Drouet arrives at Fitzgerald and Moy's a few... | [
"The, to Carrie, very important theatrical performance was to take place\nat the Avery on conditions which were to make it more noteworthy than\nwas at first anticipated. The little dramatic student had written to\nHurstwood the very morning her part was brought her that she was going\nto take part in a play.",
"... |
1,710 | 233_chapters_25-32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood is now spending his night's at a small hotel and returning to the office during the day. He finally realizes that his wife has beaten him, and so he sends her the money via a messenger boy. The only reply he gets is that "it was high time" . Dejected, he also wonders why Carrie has not written either. The nex... | [
"When Hurstwood got back to his office again he was in a greater quandary\nthan ever. Lord, Lord, he thought, what had he got into? How could\nthings have taken such a violent turn, and so quickly? He could hardly\nrealise how it had all come about. It seemed a monstrous, unnatural,\nunwarranted condition which had... |
1,711 | 233_chapters_33-40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie, although mentally prepared to have a change in her lifestyle, is unable to act for a while. Dreiser interrupts the plot to describe his philosophy of life, which involves an upward trend for the youth and a downward trend for the aged. Thus we can see Carrie rise and Hurstwood start to fall. Hurstwood starts to... | [
"The immediate result of this was nothing. Results from such things\nare usually long in growing. Morning brings a change of feeling. The\nexistent condition invariably pleads for itself. It is only at odd\nmoments that we get glimpses of the misery of things. The heart\nunderstands when it is confronted with contr... |
1,712 | 233_chapters_41-47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood, having gotten a job as a motorman, spends the rest of the day learning how to operate one of the cars. It is tiring work, and he decides to stay the night in the company loft when he realizes that heading home would take too much time. The next morning he takes his first car out on the tracks, accompanied by... | [
"The barn at which Hurstwood applied was exceedingly short-handed, and\nwas being operated practically by three men as directors. There were a\nlot of green hands around--queer, hungry-looking men, who looked as if\nwant had driven them to desperate means. They tried to be lively and\nwilling, but there was an air ... |
1,713 | 233_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie Meeber is on a train bound for her sister's place in Chicago. She's eighteen and it's her first time ever leaving her small town, so she's kind of nervous, but also pretty psyched. Our trusty narrator provides us with a description of Carrie, right down to her tiny feet. Carrie's riding along when suddenly the d... | [
"When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total\noutfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin\nsatchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse,\ncontaining her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van\nBuren Street, and four dol... |
1,714 | 233_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie arrives at her sister's one-floor apartment . Pretty much the only thing Carrie likes about the place is the sound of the bells on the horse-cars outside, and the apartment itself is pretty drab with shoddy furniture and threadbare carpet. Minnie promptly puts Carrie to work, plopping down her baby into Carrie's... | [
"Minnie's flat, as the one-floor resident apartments were then being\ncalled, was in a part of West Van Buren Street inhabited by families of\nlabourers and clerks, men who had come, and were still coming, with the\nrush of population pouring in at the rate of 50,000 a year. It was on\nthe third floor, the front wi... |
1,715 | 233_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie finally works up the nerve to go into a dry goods store to ask if they're hiring. But she can't find anyone to ask, and she starts to feel overwhelmed so she leaves. She continues to walk the downtown streets. She thinks about going back to the dry goods store and turns back, but along the way she spots another ... | [
"Once across the river and into the wholesale district, she glanced about\nher for some likely door at which to apply. As she contemplated the wide\nwindows and imposing signs, she became conscious of being gazed upon\nand understood for what she was--a wage-seeker. She had never done this\nthing before, and lacked... |
1,716 | 233_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie is already fantasizing about all the stuff she's going to buy with her earnings from the new job, but when she tells Minnie the good news, her sister promptly bursts her bubble by asking if Carrie will have to use part of her earnings to pay for carfare. Gee thanks, sis. Mr. Hanson is relieved to hear about Carr... | [
"For the next two days Carrie indulged in the most high-flown\nspeculations.",
"Her fancy plunged recklessly into privileges and amusements which would\nhave been much more becoming had she been cradled a child of fortune.\nWith ready will and quick mental selection she scattered her meagre\nfour-fifty per week w... |
1,717 | 233_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We shift gears to find out what Drouet's been up to. After getting Carrie's letter, he pretty much put her out of his mind. He hasn't wasted any time jumping back into the Chicago nightlife scene of dining, drinking, and smoking in fancy restaurants and saloons, and he's always on the lookout for opportunities to brush... | [
"Drouet did not call that evening. After receiving the letter, he had\nlaid aside all thought of Carrie for the time being and was floating\naround having what he considered a gay time. On this particular evening\nhe dined at \"Rector's,\" a restaurant of some local fame, which occupied\na basement at Clark and Mon... |
1,718 | 233_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie returns to her sister's flat and reports to Minnie and Mr. Hanson that her new job stinks; unsurprisingly, they're not particularly sympathetic. This bums Carrie out further. She realizes Minnie and Mr. Hanson just don't get her, and that she's really starting to loathe life in their apartment. Then it dawns on ... | [
"At the flat that evening Carrie felt a new phase of its atmosphere. The\nfact that it was unchanged, while her feelings were different, increased\nher knowledge of its character. Minnie, after the good spirits Carrie\nmanifested at first, expected a fair report. Hanson supposed that Carrie\nwould be satisfied.",
... |
1,719 | 233_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie is totally stoked about the money Drouet gave her. She feels a flicker of shame for being "weak enough" to accept it, but she rationalizes that she really needs it, so it's all good. Plus, Drouet is even more awesome than she'd originally thought for aiding a damsel in financial distress, she thinks. Carrie gets... | [
"The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and\ncomprehended. When each individual realises for himself that this thing\nprimarily stands for and should only be accepted as a moral due--that\nit should be paid out as honestly stored energy, and not as a usurped\nprivilege--many of our social, ... |
1,720 | 233_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Minnie and Mr. Hanson awake to find Carrie's note. They're a little shocked, but neither rushes to call out the search party. Carrie wakes up in her new place, a bit worried about what's going to happen to her now, but then Drouet comes over and invites her to breakfast and more shopping. Afterward, he takes her to see... | [
"Among the forces which sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored\nman is but a wisp in the wind. Our civilisation is still in a middle\nstage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by\ninstinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.\nOn the tiger no responsibility r... |
1,721 | 233_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meet Hurstwood. Okay, yeah, we've technically already met the guy, but now we're going to follow him around for a while. Hurstwood lives in a pretty swank, ten-room house; he's married with a son, George Jr., and daughter, Jessica. They're all waited on by servants who usually don't last long because Mrs. Hurstwood is ... | [
"Hurstwood's residence on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, was a brick\nbuilding of a very popular type then, a three-story affair with the\nfirst floor sunk a very little below the level of the street. It had a\nlarge bay window bulging out from the second floor, and was graced in\nfront by a small grassy plot, ... |
1,722 | 233_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It seems as though Carrie has moved into Drouet's three-bedroom apartment--her trunk and clothing are there, and we're told she's been hanging out there a lot and cooking for him. Plus, she's plagued by a guilty conscience over what she's done... though what she's done isn't spelled out. Drouet tells Carrie about how h... | [
"In the light of the world's attitude toward woman and her duties, the\nnature of Carrie's mental state deserves consideration. Actions such\nas hers are measured by an arbitrary scale. Society possesses a\nconventional standard whereby it judges all things. All men should be\ngood, all women virtuous. Wherefore, v... |
1,723 | 233_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator introduces us to some of the other occupants of the apartment building where Carrie and Drouet live: Mr. Frank Hale, the manager of a theater and his wife, Mrs. Hale, whom Carrie sometimes hangs out with. The Hales aren't rich, but Mrs. Hale sure wishes they were. The railroad treasurer's wife and her well... | [
"Carrie was an apt student of fortune's ways--of fortune's\nsuperficialities. Seeing a thing, she would immediately set to inquiring\nhow she would look, properly related to it. Be it known that this is not\nfine feeling, it is not wisdom. The greatest minds are not so afflicted;\nand on the contrary, the lowest or... |
1,724 | 233_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Breakfast at the Hurstwood household begins with trouble: George Jr. tells Hurstwood that he saw him at the theater last night. Mrs. Hurstwood grills him about the specifics, wanting to know what he saw and who he saw it with. Hurstwood explains that he went with Drouet and his wife, trying to make it seem like it was ... | [
"Mrs. Hurstwood was not aware of any of her husband's moral defections, though she might readily have suspected his tendencies, which she well understood. She was a woman upon whose action under provocation you could never count. Hurstwood, for one, had not the slightest idea of what she would do under certain circ... |
1,725 | 233_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood can't stop thinking about Carrie. This girl is way too good for Drouet, in his opinion, and he wants to see her again as soon as possible. But Carrie feels conflicted: she's crazy about Hurstwood but she does feel some loyalty to Drouet. We learn that because Hurstwood has been such a model employee in the pa... | [
"It was not quite two days after the scene between Carrie and Hurstwood\nin the Ogden Place parlour before he again put in his appearance. He had\nbeen thinking almost uninterruptedly of her. Her leniency had, in a way,\ninflamed his regard. He felt that he must succeed with her, and that\nspeedily.",
"The reason... |
1,726 | 233_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie returns from her rendezvous with Hurstwood just as Mrs. Hale takes a peek out her window. A-ha--Drouet had better keep an eye on her, she thinks... and she's not the only one with suspicions. The maid who let Hurstwood in has figured out what's going on . Carrie is so enamored of Hurstwood that she's now barely ... | [
"Carrie in her rooms that evening was in a fine glow, physically and\nmentally. She was deeply rejoicing in her affection for Hurstwood and\nhis love, and looked forward with fine fancy to their next meeting\nSunday night. They had agreed, without any feeling of enforced secrecy,\nthat she should come down town and... |
1,727 | 233_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We learn that Hurstwood's been so wrapped up in his affair with Carrie that he's pretty much been ignoring everything going on at home. Every morning he goes through the motions of having breakfast with Mrs. Hurstwood and the kids, but mostly buries his nose in the newspaper so he doesn't have to actually talk to any o... | [
"The complete ignoring by Hurstwood of his own home came with the growth\nof his affection for Carrie. His actions, in all that related to his\nfamily, were of the most perfunctory kind. He sat at breakfast with\nhis wife and children, absorbed in his own fancies, which reached far\nwithout the realm of their inter... |
1,728 | 233_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Drouet is a member of the Freemasons, which is an actual secret society. We could've picked up on this way back in Chapter One by the narrator's description of his ring, but now it's made explicitly clear. Drouet goes to a meeting at the lodge and one of his fellow masons , Mr. Quincel, tells him that the organization ... | [
"In the course of his present stay in Chicago, Drouet paid some slight\nattention to the secret order to which he belonged. During his last trip\nhe had received a new light on its importance.",
"\"I tell you,\" said another drummer to him, \"it's a great thing. Look at\nHazenstab. He isn't so deuced clever. Of c... |
1,729 | 233_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie writes to Hurstwood telling him about getting the part in the play. He writes back telling her to meet him in the park the next day so he can hear more about it. When they meet up, he insists on coming to see her debut. She's hesitant, but Hurstwood tells her not to worry and that he'll arrange it so that Drouet... | [
"The, to Carrie, very important theatrical performance was to take place\nat the Avery on conditions which were to make it more noteworthy than\nwas at first anticipated. The little dramatic student had written to\nHurstwood the very morning her part was brought her that she was going\nto take part in a play.",
"... |
1,730 | 233_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood has been talking up the play to a bunch of his businessmen buds, convincing them to get tickets--he's even taken out an ad in the newspaper. This thing is going to be more packed than a Madonna concert. Carrie is jittery as the big night approaches, even though she has prepared thoroughly. A member of the cas... | [
"By the evening of the 16th the subtle hand of Hurstwood had made itself\napparent. He had given the word among his friends--and they were many\nand influential--that here was something which they ought to attend,\nand, as a consequence, the sale of tickets by Mr. Quincel, acting for\nthe lodge, had been large. Sma... |
1,731 | 233_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's show time. Drouet and Hurstwood sit together in the audience. The curtain rises, but Carrie isn't in the opening scene, so Drouet and Hurstwood whisper . It becomes clear pretty quickly that this isn't exactly Broadway--the players manage to remember their lines, but that's about it. And then Carrie enters... and ... | [
"At last the curtain was ready to go up. All the details of the make-up\nhad been completed, and the company settled down as the leader of the\nsmall, hired orchestra tapped significantly upon his music rack with\nhis baton and began the soft curtain-raising strain. Hurstwood ceased\ntalking, and went with Drouet a... |
1,732 | 233_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood goes home and ponders the problem of getting Carrie away from Drouet. The next morning at breakfast, Hurstwood and his wife argue heatedly over when they're going to go on vacation. He doesn't want to go as soon as she does, so she's like cool--the kids and I will go without you. Hurstwood's not happy about t... | [
"Passion in a man of Hurstwood's nature takes a vigorous form. It is no\nmusing, dreamy thing. There is none of the tendency to sing outside of\nmy lady's window--to languish and repine in the face of difficulties. In\nthe night he was long getting to sleep because of too much thinking, and\nin the morning he was e... |
1,733 | 233_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood and Carrie meet again in secret. They chat about how great her performance in the play was, then things turn serious and he begs her to go away with him. Carrie's not sure. She's still wondering whether Hurstwood knows that she and Drouet aren't really married, and she wonders if Hurstwood wants to marry her.... | [
"When Carrie came Hurstwood had been waiting many minutes. His blood was\nwarm; his nerves wrought up. He was anxious to see the woman who had\nstirred him so profoundly the night before.",
"\"Here you are,\" he said, repressedly, feeling a spring in his limbs and\nan elation which was tragic in itself.",
"\"Ye... |
1,734 | 233_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Hurstwood is suspicious about her husband's newfound zest for life and the fact that he's not kowtowing to her desires as much as he had in the past. Mrs. H scolds Jessica for being late for breakfast and for her general brattiness. We jump back a bit and learn that a few days after Hurstwood and Carrie took that ... | [
"The misfortune of the Hurstwood household was due to the fact that\njealousy, having been born of love, did not perish with it. Mrs.\nHurstwood retained this in such form that subsequent influences could\ntransform it into hate. Hurstwood was still worthy, in a physical sense,\nof the affection his wife had once b... |
1,735 | 233_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie's having second thoughts about the whole running-away-with-Hurstwood idea--she feels like it might be wrong to ditch Drouet. Carrie straightens up her room, and when Drouet comes home, he's all set to ask her about Hurstwood. He finds it hard to actually ask her what's going on though, and when he finally works ... | [
"When Carrie reached her own room she had already fallen a prey to those\ndoubts and misgivings which are ever the result of a lack of decision.\nShe could not persuade herself as to the advisability of her promise, or\nthat now, having given her word, she ought to keep it. She went over the\nwhole ground in Hurstw... |
1,736 | 233_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood is staying in a hotel. He's all worried about what his wife is going to do and fears that he might lose his job and his friends if news of his indiscretions gets around. Plus he's worried about losing his money and property since a lot of it is in Mrs. Hurstwood's name. His only comfort is thinking of how gre... | [
"That night Hurstwood remained down town entirely, going to the Palmer\nHouse for a bed after his work was through. He was in a fevered state of\nmind, owing to the blight his wife's action threatened to cast upon\nhis entire future. While he was not sure how much significance might be\nattached to the threat she h... |
1,737 | 233_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood gets back to his office and mulls over the problem of his wife and his other problem of Carrie failing to show up. He puffs on a cigar for a while, and then decides to send a messenger to take the money to his wife. He feels like a total loser for caving to her. Hurstwood hangs out with some coworkers. The me... | [
"When Hurstwood got back to his office again he was in a greater quandary\nthan ever. Lord, Lord, he thought, what had he got into? How could\nthings have taken such a violent turn, and so quickly? He could hardly\nrealise how it had all come about. It seemed a monstrous, unnatural,\nunwarranted condition which had... |
1,738 | 233_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We pick up with Carrie who is right where we last left her: alone in the apartment right after Drouet stormed out. Having never seen him so upset, she's dumfounded. Carrie climbs into the old rocking chair to think about her predicament. If Drouet never comes back, she knows she's not going to be able to stay in the ap... | [
"Carrie, left alone by Drouet, listened to his retreating steps, scarcely\nrealising what had happened. She knew that he had stormed out. It was\nsome moments before she questioned whether he would return, not now\nexactly, but ever. She looked around her upon the rooms, out of which\nthe evening light was dying, a... |
1,739 | 233_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We pick up with Hurstwood, back from his walk. He receives Carrie's letter and, surprisingly, he doesn't feel that bad. He figures she's probably just playing hard to get. Hurstwood thinks about going to see Mrs. Hurstwood's lawyers, but then decides not to. He wonders how he's going to try to win Carrie back. He indul... | [
"It was when he returned from his disturbed stroll about the streets,\nafter receiving the decisive note from McGregor, James and Hay, that\nHurstwood found the letter Carrie had written him that morning. He\nthrilled intensely as he noted the handwriting, and rapidly tore it\nopen.",
"\"Then,\" he thought, \"she... |
1,740 | 233_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie pumps Hurstwood for details about Drouet's accident as they're in the cab, but he's pretty vague on these given that he made the story up. He tells her they're headed to the South Side and will have to take the train to get there. They get to the train station and Hurstwood leaves Carrie in the waiting room whil... | [
"The cab had not travelled a short block before Carrie, settling herself\nand thoroughly waking in the night atmosphere, asked:",
"\"What's the matter with him? Is he hurt badly?\"",
"\"It isn't anything very serious,\" Hurstwood said solemnly. He was very\nmuch disturbed over his own situation, and now that he... |
1,741 | 233_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Still rolling along, Carrie gazes out the train's window. Forgetting all about having essentially been kidnapped by Hurstwood, she starts getting excited about the journey. The next morning, they arrive in Montreal and go straight to a fancy hotel. Hurstwood signs in with a fake last name and his real initials . Once i... | [
"To the untravelled, territory other than their own familiar heath is\ninvariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces\nand delights. Things new are too important to be neglected, and mind,\nwhich is a mere reflection of sensory impressions, succumbs to the flood\nof objects. Thus lovers are... |
1,742 | 233_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood begins to think an expensive city like New York isn't such a great place to be if you're not filthy rich. Despite his financial woes though, he and Carrie find a nice apartment with a sweet view of Central Park. Carrie complains about how small it is compared to where she lived in Chicago, but so it goes in N... | [
"Whatever a man like Hurstwood could be in Chicago, it is very evident\nthat he would be but an inconspicuous drop in an ocean like New York. In\nChicago, whose population still ranged about 500,000, millionaires were\nnot numerous. The rich had not become so conspicuously rich as to drown\nall moderate incomes in ... |
1,743 | 233_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Despite living on a tighter budget, married life is going pretty well for Carrie. She enjoys going all Martha Stewart and doing domestic tasks like cooking dinner each night. A whole year passes , and in the following year Hurstwood's business picks up and he starts going out alone more, skipping his dinners with Carri... | [
"The effect of the city and his own situation on Hurstwood was paralleled\nin the case of Carrie, who accepted the things which fortune provided\nwith the most genial good-nature. New York, despite her first expression\nof disapproval, soon interested her exceedingly. Its clear atmosphere,\nmore populous thoroughfa... |
1,744 | 233_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're reminded that Carrie loves the theater and told that she still thinks a lot about her stage debut back in Chicago. The play Carrie and Mrs. Vance go to see is basically about rich people suffering heartbreak and jealousy, and seeing the luxurious world portrayed on stage further stirs Carrie's desire for expensiv... | [
"Such feelings as were generated in Carrie by this walk put her in an\nexceedingly receptive mood for the pathos which followed in the play.\nThe actor whom they had gone to see had achieved his popularity by\npresenting a mellow type of comedy, in which sufficient sorrow was\nintroduced to lend contrast and relief... |
1,745 | 233_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Six months pass. Carrie never saw Ames again, but "she had an ideal to contrast men by--particularly men close to her" . Hurstwood's financial situation is okay, though not great , and his diminished circumstances are taking a toll on his mood and he's becoming depressed. Then business at the saloon dies down. He tells... | [
"The immediate result of this was nothing. Results from such things\nare usually long in growing. Morning brings a change of feeling. The\nexistent condition invariably pleads for itself. It is only at odd\nmoments that we get glimpses of the misery of things. The heart\nunderstands when it is confronted with contr... |
1,746 | 233_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie is pretty upset about her financial situation now that Hurstwood's business has closed down. She's worried she'll have to go back to living on the verge of poverty like she did at her sister's place when she first got to Chicago, though now it's even worse because she's had a taste of the rich life through the V... | [
"Carrie pondered over this situation as consistently as Hurstwood, once\nshe got the facts adjusted in her mind. It took several days for her\nto fully realise that the approach of the dissolution of her husband's\nbusiness meant commonplace struggle and privation. Her mind went back to\nher early venture in Chicag... |
1,747 | 233_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood decides to apply for a salesman position at a whiskey company, but his attitude puts off his potential employer . He almost applies for another job in a furniture company, but decides against it. After stopping for lunch at a restaurant, he thinks about where he's going to try to find work next. He goes into ... | [
"The next morning he looked over the papers and waded through a long\nlist of advertisements, making a few notes. Then he turned to the\nmale-help-wanted column, but with disagreeable feelings. The day was\nbefore him--a long day in which to discover something--and this was\nhow he must begin to discover. He scanne... |
1,748 | 233_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We get an update on Carrie's old pal, Mrs. Vance. It turns out that Carrie never sent Mrs. Vance her new address because she was ashamed about having to move to a smaller place. Mrs. V just figured she moved out of town, so she's pretty surprised when she runs into Carrie out shopping. Carrie plays it off like she'd be... | [
"The Vances, who had been back in the city ever since Christmas, had not\nforgotten Carrie; but they, or rather Mrs. Vance, had never called on\nher, for the very simple reason that Carrie had never sent her address.\nTrue to her nature, she corresponded with Mrs. Vance as long as she\nstill lived in Seventy-eighth... |
1,749 | 233_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood reveals to Carrie that he has a hundred bucks to his name. When he hints that his job prospects are really dim, she suggests that she might be able to find work as an actress. Hurstwood doesn't like this idea because he's afraid that she'll become successful and leave him, so he insults her by telling her she... | [
"It would be useless to explain how in due time the last fifty dollars\nwas in sight. The seven hundred, by his process of handling, had only\ncarried them into June. Before the final hundred mark was reached he\nbegan to indicate that a calamity was approaching.",
"\"I don't know,\" he said one day, taking a tri... |
1,750 | 233_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie has no luck in meeting with either Mr. Gray or Mr. Daly, two managers who will meet only by appointment. She tries a few more theaters, but gets discouraged and goes home. A few days later, she manages to meet with the manager of the Casino, a theater on Broadway, who tells her to come back the following week wh... | [
"When Carrie renewed her search, as she did the next day, going to\nthe Casino, she found that in the opera chorus, as in other fields,\nemployment is difficult to secure. Girls who can stand in a line and\nlook pretty are as numerous as labourers who can swing a pick. She found\nthere was no discrimination between... |
1,751 | 233_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie really wants to go shopping, and she begins thinking that if only she and Hurstwood didn't have to eat, she'd be the best-dressed woman in all of New York City. Hurstwood informs Carrie that he's officially broke , and she tells him to take money from her purse for groceries. On her way into the theater, Carrie ... | [
"What Hurstwood got as the result of this determination was more\nself-assurance that each particular day was not the day. At the same\ntime, Carrie passed through thirty days of mental distress.",
"Her need of clothes--to say nothing of her desire for ornaments--grew\nrapidly as the fact developed that for all h... |
1,752 | 233_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Carrie apologizes to Hurstwood for missing dinner. When he doesn't seem to care, she stops caring, too: "From now on, her indifference to the flat was even greater" . We learn that Hurstwood hates having to ask for money from Carrie so much that he built up a huge debt with the grocer, and instead of ... | [
"There was no after-theatre lark, however, so far as Carrie was\nconcerned. She made her way homeward, thinking about her absence.\nHurstwood was asleep, but roused up to look as she passed through to her\nown bed.",
"\"Is that you?\" he said.",
"\"Yes,\" she answered.",
"The next morning at breakfast she fel... |
1,753 | 233_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood is sent into a barn with a group of other men to be trained to drive the motorcars. The barn is not a happy place, and the men there look even sadder and more desperate than Hurstwood. Hurstwood listens to them talk about the violence of the strike, despite the police presence. Most of the men sympathize with... | [
"The barn at which Hurstwood applied was exceedingly short-handed, and\nwas being operated practically by three men as directors. There were a\nlot of green hands around--queer, hungry-looking men, who looked as if\nwant had driven them to desperate means. They tried to be lively and\nwilling, but there was an air ... |
1,754 | 233_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood doesn't provide Carrie with the gory details of his involvement in the strike, and she assumes he quit the job out of laziness. While Hurstwood's been working, Carrie has managed to work her way up, and now has an entire line to say in the play she's acting in. At home, Hurstwood goes back to rocking, reading... | [
"Those who look upon Hurstwood's Brooklyn venture as an error of judgment\nwill none the less realise the negative influence on him of the fact\nthat he had tried and failed. Carrie got a wrong idea of it. He said\nso little that she imagined he had encountered nothing worse than\nthe ordinary roughness--quitting s... |
1,755 | 233_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie's settling into her new digs and wondering what Hurstwood is thinking about her departure. She goes to the theater and fears he might be there, but he's not. She remains scared for the next few days that he might show up at the theater, but he doesn't and the fear passes. Carrie has been reading "the theatrical ... | [
"Installed in her comfortable room, Carrie wondered how Hurstwood had\ntaken her departure. She arranged a few things hastily and then left for\nthe theatre, half expecting to encounter him at the door. Not finding\nhim, her dread lifted, and she felt more kindly toward him. She quite\nforgot him until about to com... |
1,756 | 233_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie gets her very own dressing room, which is a huge step up in the showbiz world. A representative from the Wellington, a fancy hotel, shows up at Carrie's apartment and convinces her to take some rooms in the place for the summer . Carrie insists she'll need to bring Lola along and the guy says that's okay. He sho... | [
"When Carrie got back on the stage, she found that over night her\ndressing-room had been changed.",
"\"You are to use this room, Miss Madenda,\" said one of the stage lackeys.",
"No longer any need of climbing several flights of steps to a small\ncoop shared with another. Instead, a comparatively large and com... |
1,757 | 233_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood's still over at the cheap hotel where we last saw him . He's been reading about Carrie more in the papers, and he's even seen her on billboards. Time rolls on and Hurstwood is forced to go into a lodging house in the Bowery, which is pretty much one step away from living in a homeless shelter. The poor guy se... | [
"The gloomy Hurstwood, sitting in his cheap hotel, where he had taken\nrefuge with seventy dollars--the price of his furniture--between him and\nnothing, saw a hot summer out and a cool fall in, reading. He was not\nwholly indifferent to the fact that his money was slipping away. As\nfifty cents after fifty cents w... |
1,758 | 233_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie's in her dressing room when she hears "a familiar voice." No, it's not Hurstwood. It's a blast from her past: Drouet. Remember him? He's stopping by to congratulate Carrie on her success, and invites her to come out with him and his friend. She declines, but invites him to dinner the next night at her latest pad... | [
"Playing in New York one evening on this her return, Carrie was putting\nthe finishing touches to her toilet before leaving for the night, when\na commotion near the stage door caught her ear. It included a familiar\nvoice.",
"\"Never mind, now. I want to see Miss Madenda.\"",
"\"You'll have to send in your car... |
1,759 | 233_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Things are still going very badly for Hurstwood , and he's living on the streets and eating at soup kitchens run by charities. He begs for money, but most people shy away from him or berate him, telling him "you're no good." Police shoo him away. Hurstwood considers using the money he's begged for to rent a small room ... | [
"In the city, at that time, there were a number of charities similar in\nnature to that of the captain's, which Hurstwood now patronised in a\nlike unfortunate way. One was a convent mission-house of the Sisters of\nMercy in Fifteenth Street--a row of red brick family dwellings, before\nthe door of which hung a pla... |
1,713 | 233_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Caroline Meeber, an eighteen-year-old innocent, boards the train for her first trip to Chicago from her small home town in Wisconsin. Carrying all her worldly belongings, an imitation alligator satchel, a yellow purse, and four dollars in cash, she looks forward to Chicago with mixed timidity and hope, ignorance and yo... | [
"When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total\noutfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin\nsatchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse,\ncontaining her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van\nBuren Street, and four dol... |
1,760 | 233_chapters_2-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Minnie takes her sister Carrie to the flat where she lives with her husband and baby. The flat is small and poorly furnished. Sven Hanson, Minnie's husband, works long hours in the stockyards while Minnie remains at home occupied with the steady toil of caring for the child and keeping house. The whole workaday atmosph... | [
"Minnie's flat, as the one-floor resident apartments were then being\ncalled, was in a part of West Van Buren Street inhabited by families of\nlabourers and clerks, men who had come, and were still coming, with the\nrush of population pouring in at the rate of 50,000 a year. It was on\nthe third floor, the front wi... |
1,717 | 233_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Because of the letter, Drouet does not visit Carrie on Monday evening. After dining in a rather exclusive restaurant, he stops in at Fitzgerald and Moy's saloon to have a drink with the manager, his friend George Hurstwood. After a brief discussion of business associates and acquaintances, Drouet leaves for the theater... | [
"Drouet did not call that evening. After receiving the letter, he had\nlaid aside all thought of Carrie for the time being and was floating\naround having what he considered a gay time. On this particular evening\nhe dined at \"Rector's,\" a restaurant of some local fame, which occupied\na basement at Clark and Mon... |
1,761 | 233_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That same evening Carrie returns home from her first day of work. To Minnie and Sven's anxious questioning, she answers that she does not like her job because it is too hard. Minnie feels sympathetic toward Carrie but hides her feelings because she knows how much Sven is counting on the extra money Carrie could contrib... | [
"At the flat that evening Carrie felt a new phase of its atmosphere. The\nfact that it was unchanged, while her feelings were different, increased\nher knowledge of its character. Minnie, after the good spirits Carrie\nmanifested at first, expected a fair report. Hanson supposed that Carrie\nwould be satisfied.",
... |
1,762 | 233_chapters_8-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Very early the next morning Minnie awakes to find Carrie's note. Minnie is severely upset because she knows what ill fortune might befall a young girl alone in the city. Hanson is not the least upset by Carrie's departure; he is probably glad to be rid of her. Already Carrie's life has changed significantly, for even w... | [
"Among the forces which sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored\nman is but a wisp in the wind. Our civilisation is still in a middle\nstage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by\ninstinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.\nOn the tiger no responsibility r... |
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