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272 | 228_book_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Aeneid opens with Virgil's famous words, "I sing of arms and of a man." The narrator describes the impetus behind Aeneas's many struggles: Juno, Queen of the gods, was angered when a Trojan man, Paris, did not choose her as the fairest of the goddesses. She became even more determined to do whatever she could to de... | [
"BOOK I",
"Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,\n And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,\n Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.\n Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,\n And in the doubtful war, before he won\n The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town;\n His banish'd gods restor'd ... |
273 | 228_book_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aeneas's tale of his travels takes up Books II and III of the Aeneid . Aeneas begins by sighing deeply and telling Dido and her court that his is a long and tragic story, but that he is willing to try to recall it for his host. He starts by describing the fall of Troy: The Greeks, aided by the goddess Minerva, construc... | [
"BOOK II",
"All were attentive to the godlike man,\n When from his lofty couch he thus began:\n \"Great queen, what you command me to relate\n Renews the sad remembrance of our fate:\n An empire from its old foundations rent,\n And ev'ry woe the Trojans underwent;\n A peopled city made a desart place;\n Al... |
274 | 228_book_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the opening of Book III, Troy has fallen and now lies in smoking ruins. Aeneas and his men build a fleet of ships that they hope will carry them to the land - as yet unknown - where they are destined to settle and build a great new city. Weeping, Aeneas watches as the shores of his homeland recede in the distance. T... | [
"BOOK III",
"\"When Heav'n had overturn'd the Trojan state\n And Priam's throne, by too severe a fate;\n When ruin'd Troy became the Grecians' prey,\n And Ilium's lofty tow'rs in ashes lay;\n Warn'd by celestial omens, we retreat,\n To seek in foreign lands a happier seat.\n Near old Antandros, and at Ida's... |
275 | 228_book_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Book IV begins just after Aeneas has finished the tale of his travels. Dido sits beside him, inflamed with love. She looks to her sister, Anna, for guidance, torn between the promise she made never to love another man after her husband's death on the one hand, and on the other hand the passion that she feels for Aeneas... | [
"BOOK IV",
"But anxious cares already seiz'd the queen:\n She fed within her veins a flame unseen;\n The hero's valor, acts, and birth inspire\n Her soul with love, and fan the secret fire.\n His words, his looks, imprinted in her heart,\n Improve the passion, and increase the smart.\n Now, when the purple ... |
276 | 228_book_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thus far unaware of Dido's tragic demise, Aeneas stands aboard his ship, watching the city of Carthage burn in the distance. When the fleet reaches open water, Palinurus, the pilot, calls out to Aeneas that the wind has shifted; they will not yet be able to sail to Italy. Aeneas replies that struggling against the wind... | [
"BOOK V",
"Meantime the Trojan cuts his wat'ry way, Fix'd on his voyage, thro' the curling sea; Then, casting back his eyes, with dire amaze, Sees on the Punic shore the mounting blaze. The cause unknown; yet his presaging mind The fate of Dido from the fire divin'd; He knew the stormy souls of womankind, What se... |
277 | 228_book_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the opening of Book VI, Aeneas docks on the coast of Cumae in search of the Sibyl of Cumae, Deiphobe. Upon locating the sibyl in her grotto, Aeneas is ordered to sacrifice seven steers. He does so and promises Deiphobe that if the fates allow him to build a city in Italy, he will raise a temple to Apollo and Diana. ... | [
"BOOK VI",
"He said, and wept; then spread his sails before\n The winds, and reach'd at length the Cumaean shore:\n Their anchors dropp'd, his crew the vessels moor. They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land,\n And greet with greedy joy th' Italian strand. Some strike from clashing flints their fiery ... |
278 | 228_book_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aeneas's first stop in Book VII is Caieta's harbor, named for his childhood nurse. After honoring Caieta's memory, the fleet sails past the island ruled over by Circe, a goddess who turns her many suitors into animals. Neptune takes pity on Aeneas's men and sends them a wind that carries them past the dangerous island.... | [
"BOOK VII",
"And thou, O matron of immortal fame,\n Here dying, to the shore hast left thy name;\n Cajeta still the place is call'd from thee,\n The nurse of great Aeneas' infancy.\n Here rest thy bones in rich Hesperia's plains;\n Thy name ('t is all a ghost can have) remains.",
"Now, when the prince her ... |
279 | 228_book_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Book VIII opens with Latin warriors pledging their support to Turnus. Aeneas is greatly troubled by this turn of events, and particularly by the fact that the dangerous Diomedes has been asked to support the Latin troops. That night, the river god Tiberinus appears to Aeneas in a dream and tells him that he will see an... | [
"BOOK VIII",
"When Turnus had assembled all his pow'rs,\n His standard planted on Laurentum's tow'rs;\n When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar,\n Had giv'n the signal of approaching war,\n Had rous'd the neighing steeds to scour the fields,\n While the fierce riders clatter'd on their shields;\n Tremblin... |
280 | 228_book_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Juno, determined to see the war between the Trojans and the Latins begin in earnest, sends Iris to tell Turnus to attack the Trojan camp. The Rutulians surprise the Trojans, who react in fear to the approaching "mass ... of gloom and darkness" . Since Aeneas is not present , the Trojans do as he had instructed, retreat... | [
"BOOK IX",
"While these affairs in distant places pass'd,\n The various Iris Juno sends with haste,\n To find bold Turnus, who, with anxious thought,\n The secret shade of his great grandsire sought.\n Retir'd alone she found the daring man,\n And op'd her rosy lips, and thus began:\n \"What none of all the... |
281 | 228_book_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Book X begins with a council of the gods. Jupiter calls the gods to Mount Olympus, where he berates them for having meddled with fate. Although Venus and Juno attempt to argue the cases of, respectively, the Trojans and the Latins, Jupiter asserts that there is to be no further divine intervention in the battle: "what ... | [
"BOOK X",
"The gates of heav'n unfold: Jove summons all\n The gods to council in the common hall.\n Sublimely seated, he surveys from far\n The fields, the camp, the fortune of the war,\n And all th' inferior world. From first to last,\n The sov'reign senate in degrees are plac'd.",
"Then thus th' almighty... |
282 | 228_book_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Aeneas is deeply distressed by the deaths of Pallas and his other comrades, he still offers a sacrifice to the gods composed of spoils taken from Mezentius. He and his men bury the bodies of their slain companions and take great care readying Pallas's corpse for return to King Evander. Aeneas weeps over Pallas... | [
"BOOK XI",
"Scarce had the rosy Morning rais'd her head\n Above the waves, and left her wat'ry bed;\n The pious chief, whom double cares attend\n For his unburied soldiers and his friend,\n Yet first to Heav'n perform'd a victor's vows:\n He bar'd an ancient oak of all her boughs;\n Then on a rising ground ... |
283 | 228_book_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Turnus, seeing that the tide of war has turned against the Latins, realizes that he now must keep his pledge and fight Aeneas in a duel. King Latinus begs Turnus to reconsider and seek peace with the Trojans, and a weeping Queen Amata pleads with him to defect. But Turnus cannot back down; his very honor, he believes, ... | [
"BOOK XII",
"When Turnus saw the Latins leave the field,\n Their armies broken, and their courage quell'd,\n Himself become the mark of public spite,\n His honor question'd for the promis'd fight;\n The more he was with vulgar hate oppress'd,\n The more his fury boil'd within his breast:\n He rous'd his vig... |
272 | 228_book_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Virgil begins by announcing his theme. He is going to be telling the story of how Aeneas made his way from Troy to Italy and founded the precursor to the modern city of Rome. Virgil also reveals that Aeneas is going to have a really, really crummy time of it. This, he explains, is because the goddess Juno is mad at him... | [
"BOOK I",
"Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,\n And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,\n Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.\n Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,\n And in the doubtful war, before he won\n The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town;\n His banish'd gods restor'd ... |
273 | 228_book_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After some initial hesitation, Aeneas begins to tell the story of Troy's downfall. Everything that follows in this book is told by Aeneas, and so reflects his perspective. Aeneas begins by telling how the Greeks, unable to defeat the Trojans in battle, sail away from Troy. On the beach, they leave behind a giant wooden... | [
"BOOK II",
"All were attentive to the godlike man,\n When from his lofty couch he thus began:\n \"Great queen, what you command me to relate\n Renews the sad remembrance of our fate:\n An empire from its old foundations rent,\n And ev'ry woe the Trojans underwent;\n A peopled city made a desart place;\n Al... |
274 | 228_book_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aeneas and his followers take refuge beneath Mount Ida, in the neighborhood of Troy. There they set to work building a fleet. When the summer rolls around, they sail off. First they head for Thrace, a region once allied with Troy. Aeneas plots out a settlement on the coast. Then he prepares to make a sacrifice. But whe... | [
"BOOK III",
"\"When Heav'n had overturn'd the Trojan state\n And Priam's throne, by too severe a fate;\n When ruin'd Troy became the Grecians' prey,\n And Ilium's lofty tow'rs in ashes lay;\n Warn'd by celestial omens, we retreat,\n To seek in foreign lands a happier seat.\n Near old Antandros, and at Ida's... |
275 | 228_book_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | If she had a bit of a crush on him before, now that Aeneas has finished his story, Dido totally has the hots for him. The next morning, she confides in her sister, Anna. She says that even though she swore she would never love anyone after her dead husband, Sychaeus, she seriously wants to get with Aeneas. But she deci... | [
"BOOK IV",
"But anxious cares already seiz'd the queen:\n She fed within her veins a flame unseen;\n The hero's valor, acts, and birth inspire\n Her soul with love, and fan the secret fire.\n His words, his looks, imprinted in her heart,\n Improve the passion, and increase the smart.\n Now, when the purple ... |
276 | 228_book_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As they are sailing away, the Trojans see a huge fire burning on the shore. They can guess what it is coming from. Shortly afterward - as seems to happen whenever the Trojans set out anywhere - a storm comes up, and they decide to head for shore. They land in Sicily, coincidentally, at exactly the spot where they burie... | [
"BOOK V",
"Meantime the Trojan cuts his wat'ry way, Fix'd on his voyage, thro' the curling sea; Then, casting back his eyes, with dire amaze, Sees on the Punic shore the mounting blaze. The cause unknown; yet his presaging mind The fate of Dido from the fire divin'd; He knew the stormy souls of womankind, What se... |
277 | 228_book_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? SIMMER DOWN ALREADY. Yes. Aeneas arrives in Italy. Like many a globetrotter after him, Aeneas's first visit is to the local tourist office - meaning, of course, the cave of the Sibyl, a prophetess who owes her power to the god Apollo. When Aeneas arrives at her temp... | [
"BOOK VI",
"He said, and wept; then spread his sails before\n The winds, and reach'd at length the Cumaean shore:\n Their anchors dropp'd, his crew the vessels moor. They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land,\n And greet with greedy joy th' Italian strand. Some strike from clashing flints their fiery ... |
278 | 228_book_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Trojans hold a funeral for Aeneas's nurse, Caieta, who died apparently. Then, when the sea is calm, they set out. The moon is bright, so they can sail easily by night. As they approach the island of the sorceress Circe , they hear the sounds of wild animals. These used to be human beings, before they were transform... | [
"BOOK VII",
"And thou, O matron of immortal fame,\n Here dying, to the shore hast left thy name;\n Cajeta still the place is call'd from thee,\n The nurse of great Aeneas' infancy.\n Here rest thy bones in rich Hesperia's plains;\n Thy name ('t is all a ghost can have) remains.",
"Now, when the prince her ... |
279 | 228_book_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Turnus and his allies are having huge success rounding up local recruits against the foreign invaders. They also send out emissaries to the Greek hero Diomedes , trying to convince him to take up the fight against his old enemies, the Trojans. Aeneas has a pretty good idea of what's going on, and is deep in thought abo... | [
"BOOK VIII",
"When Turnus had assembled all his pow'rs,\n His standard planted on Laurentum's tow'rs;\n When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar,\n Had giv'n the signal of approaching war,\n Had rous'd the neighing steeds to scour the fields,\n While the fierce riders clatter'd on their shields;\n Tremblin... |
280 | 228_book_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Juno sends Iris down to Turnus to tell him that it's wartime. Turnus gets his men in order and marches out. Soon enough, from their fort, the Trojans see the Italian forces coming. When Turnus arrives, he immediately rides around the fort, looking for a way in. He can't find one, so he decides to lure the Trojans out. ... | [
"BOOK IX",
"While these affairs in distant places pass'd,\n The various Iris Juno sends with haste,\n To find bold Turnus, who, with anxious thought,\n The secret shade of his great grandsire sought.\n Retir'd alone she found the daring man,\n And op'd her rosy lips, and thus began:\n \"What none of all the... |
281 | 228_book_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jupiter has been watching the battle unfolding between the Italians and the Trojans. When all the other gods are assembled, he asks them, "What's the matter? Why's this war going on? Why can't there just be peace?" After this, Venus sees her opportunity to speak up for the Trojans. She makes a long speech, the gist of ... | [
"BOOK X",
"The gates of heav'n unfold: Jove summons all\n The gods to council in the common hall.\n Sublimely seated, he surveys from far\n The fields, the camp, the fortune of the war,\n And all th' inferior world. From first to last,\n The sov'reign senate in degrees are plac'd.",
"Then thus th' almighty... |
282 | 228_book_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although he's disturbed by the death of Pallas, Aeneas makes offerings to the gods as a sign of thanks for his victory. Then he addresses his soldiers. He tells them that the lion's share of their work is over. Then he instructs them to bury the dead. He also orders that Pallas's body be sent back to his father Evander... | [
"BOOK XI",
"Scarce had the rosy Morning rais'd her head\n Above the waves, and left her wat'ry bed;\n The pious chief, whom double cares attend\n For his unburied soldiers and his friend,\n Yet first to Heav'n perform'd a victor's vows:\n He bar'd an ancient oak of all her boughs;\n Then on a rising ground ... |
283 | 228_book_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the city of the Latins, Turnus announces that the time has come for him to fight Aeneas one-on-one. Latinus tries to convince him to give it up - to take some other woman as wife and leave Lavinia to Aeneas. Turnus refuses. Then Amata pleads with Turnus, telling him that, if she dies, she'd sooner kill herself than ... | [
"BOOK XII",
"When Turnus saw the Latins leave the field,\n Their armies broken, and their courage quell'd,\n Himself become the mark of public spite,\n His honor question'd for the promis'd fight;\n The more he was with vulgar hate oppress'd,\n The more his fury boil'd within his breast:\n He rous'd his vig... |
272 | 228_book_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I sing of warfare and a man at war.. . .He came to Italy by destiny. Virgil opens his epic poem by declaring its subject, "warfare and a man at war," and asking a muse, or goddess of inspiration, to explain the anger of Juno, queen of the gods . The man in question is Aeneas, who is fleeing the ruins of his native city... | [
"BOOK I",
"Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,\n And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,\n Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.\n Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,\n And in the doubtful war, before he won\n The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town;\n His banish'd gods restor'd ... |
273 | 228_book_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Did you suppose, my father, That I could tear myself away and leave you? Fulfilling Dido's request, Aeneas begins his sorrowful story, adding that retelling it entails reexperiencing the pain. He takes us back to ten years into the Trojan War: at the moment the tale begins, the Danaans have constructed a giant wooden h... | [
"BOOK II",
"All were attentive to the godlike man,\n When from his lofty couch he thus began:\n \"Great queen, what you command me to relate\n Renews the sad remembrance of our fate:\n An empire from its old foundations rent,\n And ev'ry woe the Trojans underwent;\n A peopled city made a desart place;\n Al... |
274 | 228_book_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aeneas continues his story, recounting the aftermath of the fall of Troy. After escaping from Troy, he leads the survivors to the coast of Antander, where they build a new fleet of ships. They sail first to Thrace, where Aeneas prepares to offer sacrifices. When he tears at the roots and branches of a tree, dark blood ... | [
"BOOK III",
"\"When Heav'n had overturn'd the Trojan state\n And Priam's throne, by too severe a fate;\n When ruin'd Troy became the Grecians' prey,\n And Ilium's lofty tow'rs in ashes lay;\n Warn'd by celestial omens, we retreat,\n To seek in foreign lands a happier seat.\n Near old Antandros, and at Ida's... |
275 | 228_book_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The flame of love for Aeneas that Cupid has lit in Dido's heart only grows while she listens to his sorrowful tale. She hesitates, though, because after the death of her husband, Sychaeus, she swore that she would never marry again. On the other hand, as her sister Anna counsels her, by marrying Aeneas she would increa... | [
"BOOK IV",
"But anxious cares already seiz'd the queen:\n She fed within her veins a flame unseen;\n The hero's valor, acts, and birth inspire\n Her soul with love, and fan the secret fire.\n His words, his looks, imprinted in her heart,\n Improve the passion, and increase the smart.\n Now, when the purple ... |
276 | 228_book_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Massive storm clouds greet the Trojan fleet as it embarks from Carthage, hindering the approach to Italy. Aeneas redirects the ships to the Sicilian port of Eryx, where his friend and fellow Trojan Acestes rules. After landing and being welcomed by Acestes, Aeneas realizes that it is the one-year anniversary of his fat... | [
"BOOK V",
"Meantime the Trojan cuts his wat'ry way, Fix'd on his voyage, thro' the curling sea; Then, casting back his eyes, with dire amaze, Sees on the Punic shore the mounting blaze. The cause unknown; yet his presaging mind The fate of Dido from the fire divin'd; He knew the stormy souls of womankind, What se... |
277 | 228_book_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roman, remember by your strength to rule . . .To spare the conquered, battle down the proud. At last, the Trojan fleet arrives on the shores of Italy. The ships drop anchor off the coast of Cumae, near modern-day Naples. Following his father's instructions, Aeneas makes for the Temple of Apollo, where the Sibyl, a pri... | [
"BOOK VI",
"He said, and wept; then spread his sails before\n The winds, and reach'd at length the Cumaean shore:\n Their anchors dropp'd, his crew the vessels moor. They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land,\n And greet with greedy joy th' Italian strand. Some strike from clashing flints their fiery ... |
278 | 228_book_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amata tossed and turned . . .. . .While the infection first, like dew of poisonFallen on her, pervaded all her senses. Sailing up the coast of Italy, the Trojans reach the mouth of the Tiber River, near the kingdom of Latium. Virgil, invoking the muse once again to kick off the second half of his epic narrative, descr... | [
"BOOK VII",
"And thou, O matron of immortal fame,\n Here dying, to the shore hast left thy name;\n Cajeta still the place is call'd from thee,\n The nurse of great Aeneas' infancy.\n Here rest thy bones in rich Hesperia's plains;\n Thy name ('t is all a ghost can have) remains.",
"Now, when the prince her ... |
279 | 228_book_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Turnus gathers his forces, Aeneas readies the Trojan troops and solicits support from nearby cities in Latium. Still, he is troubled at his prospects in battle. That night, the river god Tiberinus speaks to him and tells him to approach and form an alliance with the Arcadians, who are also at war with the Latins.... | [
"BOOK VIII",
"When Turnus had assembled all his pow'rs,\n His standard planted on Laurentum's tow'rs;\n When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar,\n Had giv'n the signal of approaching war,\n Had rous'd the neighing steeds to scour the fields,\n While the fierce riders clatter'd on their shields;\n Tremblin... |
280 | 228_book_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Never one to miss an opportunity, Juno sends her messenger, Iris, down from Olympus to inform Turnus that Aeneas is away from his camp. With their leader gone, the Trojans are particularly vulnerable to an attack, so Turnus immediately leads his army toward the enemy camp. The Trojans spot the army coming and secure th... | [
"BOOK IX",
"While these affairs in distant places pass'd,\n The various Iris Juno sends with haste,\n To find bold Turnus, who, with anxious thought,\n The secret shade of his great grandsire sought.\n Retir'd alone she found the daring man,\n And op'd her rosy lips, and thus began:\n \"What none of all the... |
281 | 228_book_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | From Olympus, Jupiter takes notice of the carnage in Italy. He had expected the Trojans to settle there peacefully, and he summons a council of all the gods to discuss the matter. There, Venus blames Juno for the continued suffering of Aeneas and the Trojans. Juno angrily responds that she did not force Aeneas to go to... | [
"BOOK X",
"The gates of heav'n unfold: Jove summons all\n The gods to council in the common hall.\n Sublimely seated, he surveys from far\n The fields, the camp, the fortune of the war,\n And all th' inferior world. From first to last,\n The sov'reign senate in degrees are plac'd.",
"Then thus th' almighty... |
282 | 228_book_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day after the battle, Aeneas views the body of young Pallas and, weeping, arranges for 1,000 men to escort the prince's corpse to King Evander and to join the king in mourning. When Evander hears of his son's death, he is crushed, but because Pallas died honorably, he forgives Aeneas in his heart and wishes only fo... | [
"BOOK XI",
"Scarce had the rosy Morning rais'd her head\n Above the waves, and left her wat'ry bed;\n The pious chief, whom double cares attend\n For his unburied soldiers and his friend,\n Yet first to Heav'n perform'd a victor's vows:\n He bar'd an ancient oak of all her boughs;\n Then on a rising ground ... |
283 | 228_book_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Just so Trojan Aeneas and the hero Son of Daunus, battering shield on shield, Fought with a din that filled the air of heaven. Turnus decides to go and fight Aeneas alone for both the kingdom and Lavinia's hand. King Latinus and Queen Amata protest, wanting Turnus to surrender and protect his life, but Turnus ignores t... | [
"BOOK XII",
"When Turnus saw the Latins leave the field,\n Their armies broken, and their courage quell'd,\n Himself become the mark of public spite,\n His honor question'd for the promis'd fight;\n The more he was with vulgar hate oppress'd,\n The more his fury boil'd within his breast:\n He rous'd his vig... |
284 | 543_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We look in on a hill where the Chippewa people used to live. The Chippewa aren't there anymore, but instead we see a girl staring out at a bunch of flourmills. We quickly learn that this girl is Carol Milford, and she is taking a little break from life at a place called Blodgett College. We're totally reminded that the... | [
"CHAPTER I",
"I",
"ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago,\na girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky.\nShe saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of\nskyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws\nand ... |
285 | 543_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol walks to a friend's home for dinner. When she gets there, she meets a doctor in his mid-thirties named Will Kennicott. The host introduces Carol to Will, and they get to talking. Later that evening, Will and Carol talk on the sofa. Will asks Carol about her life and says he's not a fan of big cities like she is. ... | [
"CHAPTER II",
"IT was a frail and blue and lonely Carol who trotted to the flat of the\nJohnson Marburys for Sunday evening supper. Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor\nand friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of\nan insurance company. They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee\nlap supper... |
286 | 543_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next time we see Dr. Will Kennicott and Carol, they're married and on their way to Gopher Prairie. Even on the train, Carol knows she'll have her work cut out for her if she wants to improve the lives of farmers and their families. All she can do is look around and mourn how dirty and dumb they all look. As Carol s... | [
"CHAPTER III",
"UNDER the rolling clouds of the prairie a moving mass of steel. An\nirritable clank and rattle beneath a prolonged roar. The sharp scent of\noranges cutting the soggy smell of unbathed people and ancient baggage.",
"Towns as planless as a scattering of pasteboard boxes on an attic floor.\nThe st... |
287 | 543_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will tells Carol that his friends--the Clarks--have invited them over to meet some of the townsfolk after they've gotten settled. Carol thinks this'll be nice. Before he does anything else, Will wants to drop by his office for an hour to make sure everything's all right with his work. Carol tells him to go but is secre... | [
"CHAPTER IV",
"I",
"\"THE Clarks have invited some folks to their house to meet us, tonight,\"\nsaid Kennicott, as he unpacked his suit-case.",
"\"Oh, that is nice of them!\"",
"\"You bet. I told you you'd like 'em. Squarest people on earth. Uh,\nCarrie----Would you mind if I sneaked down to the office for ... |
288 | 543_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will wants to take Carol hunting so she can experience the great outdoors of Gopher Prairie. He borrows a buddy's dog and bustles Carol into his motorcar. Will and Carol reach the prairies, where Will kills a few birds with his rifle. Afterward, they stop by a Scandinavian farmer's house and ask for a glass of milk. Ca... | [
"CHAPTER V",
"I",
"\"WE'LL steal the whole day, and go hunting. I want you to see the\ncountry round here,\" Kennicott announced at breakfast. \"I'd take the\ncar--want you to see how swell she runs since I put in a new piston.\nBut we'll take a team, so we can get right out into the fields. Not many\nprairie c... |
289 | 543_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol vents her boredom by completely redecorating Will's home and giving it an edgy Japanese vibe. Once she's done, Will admits that it's nicer than it was before. Everyone in the town snoops around the redecorating and gossips about it. A neighbor named Mrs. Bogart is especially nosy: she comes over to visit and says... | [
"CHAPTER VI",
"I",
"WHEN the first dubious November snow had filtered down, shading with\nwhite the bare clods in the plowed fields, when the first small fire\nhad been started in the furnace, which is the shrine of a Gopher Prairie\nhome, Carol began to make the house her own. She dismissed the parlor\nfurnitu... |
290 | 543_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The long winter is coming, and everyone in Gopher Prairie is getting their houses ready. The man who performs a lot of the winterizing work is a dude named Miles Bjornstam. The guy isn't very popular, because he's an agitator for workers' rights. Carol gets a group of people to go skiing and tobogganing. Everyone has a... | [
"CHAPTER VII",
"I",
"GOPHER PRAIRIE was digging in for the winter. Through late November and\nall December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might\ndrop to twenty below, or thirty. Winter is not a season in the North\nMiddlewest; it is an industry. Storm sheds were erected at every door.\nIn ever... |
291 | 543_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next time Will comes home, Carol asks to hear all about his cases. Will doesn't have anything interesting to tell her, though: it's just been a few people with stomachaches lately. Four days after Carol's first meeting with the Jolly Seventeen, Vida Sherwin comes to visit and tells Carol that the women of the town ... | [
"CHAPTER VIII",
"\"DON'T I, in looking for things to do, show that I'm not attentive\nenough to Will? Am I impressed enough by his work? I will be. Oh, I will\nbe. If I can't be one of the town, if I must be an outcast----\"",
"When Kennicott came home she bustled, \"Dear, you must tell me a lot more\nabout you... |
292 | 543_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the weeks go by, Carol becomes completely paranoid that people are constantly making fun of her. She feels like every day is like high school, walking through a minefield of possible insults and ridicule. The more she walks around Gopher Prairie, the more Carol decides that the people she can't stand most are the yo... | [
"CHAPTER IX",
"I",
"SHE had tripped into the meadow to teach the lambs a pretty educational\ndance and found that the lambs were wolves. There was no way out between\ntheir pressing gray shoulders. She was surrounded by fangs and sneering\neyes.",
"She could not go on enduring the hidden derision. She wanted ... |
293 | 543_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol sits alone in her house having no clue what to do. She knows there's a meeting of the Jolly Seventeen women's club, but she can't bring herself to go and be phony around them. Instead, she wishes that someone would come see her. Carol makes tea for herself and a visitor, since she has faith someone will call on h... | [
"CHAPTER X",
"THE house was haunted, long before evening. Shadows slipped down the\nwalls and waited behind every chair.",
"Did that door move?",
"No. She wouldn't go to the Jolly Seventeen. She hadn't energy enough to\ncaper before them, to smile blandly at Juanita's rudeness. Not today.\nBut she did want a ... |
294 | 543_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day, a woman from the town's Thanatopsis Club barges into Carol's house and says Carol should go to the club's next meeting, where they'll discuss English poetry. Carol didn't realize this group was so literary, and she answers that she'd be delighted to go. Unfortunately, Carol quickly learns that the discussion o... | [
"CHAPTER XI",
"I",
"SHE had often been invited to the weekly meetings of the Thanatopsis,\nthe women's study club, but she had put it off. The Thanatopsis was,\nVida Sherwin promised, \"such a cozy group, and yet it puts you in touch\nwith all the intellectual thoughts that are going on everywhere.\"",
"Early... |
295 | 543_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol starts going for long walks in nature alone to calm her mind and to feel better about her place in the world. This is the only time she feels she gets to act like a kid. While she's walking, Carol sees Miles Bjornstam. The guy invites her to join him and a buddy named Pete for a hunk of bacon. It sounds like Mile... | [
"CHAPTER XII",
"ONE week of authentic spring, one rare sweet week of May, one tranquil\nmoment between the blast of winter and the charge of summer. Daily Carol\nwalked from town into flashing country hysteric with new life.",
"One enchanted hour when she returned to youth and a belief in the\npossibility of be... |
296 | 543_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol keeps calling on the Champ Perrys out of loyalty more than anything else. But the next time she calls on them, they aren't at home. She sees a light under one of the other doors in their building, and she knocks on it, only to find Guy Pollock, her husband's lawyer friend, on the other side. Carol sits down with ... | [
"CHAPTER XIII",
"SHE tried, more from loyalty than from desire, to call upon the Perrys\non a November evening when Kennicott was away. They were not at home.",
"Like a child who has no one to play with she loitered through the dark\nhall. She saw a light under an office door. She knocked. To the person\nwho op... |
297 | 543_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As she walks home from Guy Pollock's, Carol wonders if she's capable of cheating on her husband Will. All kinds of thoughts fly through her head until she reaches home, where Will asks what's kept her out so late. She tells him she's been at Guy Pollock's and has to reassure him by saying that the neighbors were over, ... | [
"CHAPTER XIV",
"SHE was marching home.",
"\"No. I couldn't fall in love with him. I like him, very much. But\nhe's too much of a recluse. Could I kiss him? No! No! Guy Pollock at\ntwenty-six I could have kissed him then, maybe, even if I were married\nto some one else, and probably I'd have been glib in persuad... |
298 | 543_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We learn that Carol suddenly falls back in love with Will when December rolls around. We can assume that this chapter will tell us why that happens. One night, Carol wakes up to hear Will talking to a German farmer whose wife is sick. Turns out that Will needs to leave, and Carol finds herself admiring him as a hero. S... | [
"CHAPTER XV",
"THAT December she was in love with her husband.",
"She romanticized herself not as a great reformer but as the wife of a\ncountry physician. The realities of the doctor's household were colored\nby her pride.",
"Late at night, a step on the wooden porch, heard through her confusion\nof sleep; t... |
299 | 543_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Christmas comes, Carol finds herself crying and missing her father, even though he's been dead for more than a decade. She realizes that her Christmases with Will will never be like the ones she grew up with. Carol makes a new effort to appreciate the things Will loves in life, including his motorcar and his land ... | [
"CHAPTER XVI",
"KENNICOTT was heavily pleased by her Christmas presents, and he gave her\na diamond bar-pin. But she could not persuade herself that he was much\ninterested in the rites of the morning, in the tree she had decorated,\nthe three stockings she had hung, the ribbons and gilt seals and hidden\nmessage... |
300 | 543_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol rides with twenty other people in a large sled to some lakeside cottages. She tries her best to feel merry. All of the talk at the party is superficial and repetitive, but Carol does her best to enjoy herself. She tells the folks at the party that Gopher Prairie should get together a dramatic association that can... | [
"CHAPTER XVII",
"I",
"THEY were driving down the lake to the cottages that moonlit January\nnight, twenty of them in the bob-sled. They sang \"Toy Land\" and \"Seeing\nNelly Home\"; they leaped from the low back of the sled to race over the\nslippery snow ruts; and when they were tired they climbed on the runne... |
301 | 543_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Gopher Prairie, Carol calls the first meeting of the dramatic club and asks for any suggestions for the play they should put on. She already has a high-minded play to recommend, but she's shocked to find out that every person is adamant about doing the play they want to do. When Carol finally recommends her cho... | [
"CHAPTER XVIII",
"I",
"SHE hurried to the first meeting of the play-reading committee. Her\njungle romance had faded, but she retained a religious fervor, a surge\nof half-formed thought about the creation of beauty by suggestion.",
"A Dunsany play would be too difficult for the Gopher Prairie\nassociation. S... |
302 | 543_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After he marries Bea Sorenson and settles down, Miles Bjornstam stops talking about his radical political views and tries harder to fit in. The change is depressing for Carol, who always liked the way Miles stirred the pot. Very few people attend Miles and Bea's wedding, because they all think they're above these worki... | [
"CHAPTER XIX",
"I",
"IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences\nchronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly\nSeventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely\ncontrolling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people.",
"II",
"Bea... |
303 | 543_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol hates the experience of being pregnant in Gopher Prairie, because all the women seem to treat the pregnancy as their business. They all make comments about how Carol will have to give up her weird ideas in order to be a good mom. When the baby is first born, Carol doesn't like him at all, but after a while, she b... | [
"CHAPTER XX",
"I",
"THE baby was coming. Each morning she was nauseated, chilly, bedraggled,\nand certain that she would never again be attractive; each twilight\nshe was afraid. She did not feel exalted, but unkempt and furious. The\nperiod of daily sickness crawled into an endless time of boredom. It\nbecame ... |
304 | 543_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel takes a moment away from Carol Kennicott to tell us about the inner life of Vida Sherwin. It turns out that Vida had a bit of a thing going with Will Kennicott that never panned out, but Vida was still a little crushed when she found out Will had married Carol. Carol never knew that Vida would have some secre... | [
"CHAPTER XXI",
"I",
"GRAY steel that seems unmoving because it spins so fast in the balanced\nfly-wheel, gray snow in an avenue of elms, gray dawn with the sun behind\nit--this was the gray of Vida Sherwin's life at thirty-six.",
"She was small and active and sallow; her yellow hair was faded, and\nlooked dry... |
305 | 543_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol sees the happiness that Vida Sherwin has after getting married and wishes she could be happy in the same way. Her new solution to dealing with her situation is to read more and to find out what kinds of ideas women in her situation are starting to have all over the U.S. The more she reads, the more Carol develops... | [
"CHAPTER XXII",
"I",
"THE greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or\npraise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours\na day. It is this which puzzles the long-shoreman about the clerk, the\nLondoner about the bushman. It was this which puzzled Carol in regard\nt... |
306 | 543_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're at the point where America has decided to enter World War I. Vida sends her new husband Raymie off to a training camp so he can do his part for his country. Mrs. Bogart's son Cy wants to join the army so he can kill some Germans, but Mrs. Bogart won't let him, since he's still only a teenager. Meanwhile, Carol ke... | [
"CHAPTER XXIII",
"I",
"WHEN America entered the Great European War, Vida sent Raymie off to an\nofficers' training-camp--less than a year after her wedding. Raymie was\ndiligent and rather strong. He came out a first lieutenant of infantry,\nand was one of the earliest sent abroad.",
"Carol grew definitely af... |
307 | 543_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Bresnahan has left Gopher Prairie, Carol becomes especially sensitive to all the things she finds ugly about her husband. She doesn't bother to act happy when he has his gross friends over for a poker night. Once the poker guys have left, Carol has a huge fight with Will. She calls his friends disgusting and rude... | [
"CHAPTER XXIV",
"I",
"ALL that midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott. She recalled\na hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco,\nthe evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had\nseemed to vanish with no trace or sequence. Always she repeated that\nh... |
308 | 543_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will sits in his office and broods about Carol's dissatisfaction. He simply can't see why she hasn't gotten used to her situation in Gopher Prairie yet. Part of him thinks that she's intentionally resisting satisfaction because she has too much pride. While Will broods, a woman named Maud Dyer comes into his office ask... | [
"CHAPTER XXV",
"\"CARRIE'S all right. She's finicky, but she'll get over it. But I wish\nshe'd hurry up about it! What she can't understand is that a fellow\npractising medicine in a small town like this has got to cut out the\nhighbrow stuff, and not spend all his time going to concerts and\nshining his shoes. (... |
309 | 543_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol's favorite thing to do in Gopher Prairie is to take her son Hugh and visit Miles and Bea Bjornstam. Will doesn't like it one bit, because he thinks the Bjornstams are beneath them socially. Plus, Miles is a labor agitator. But Carol goes to the Bjornstams' anyway. She loves the way Miles lets the children hold hi... | [
"CHAPTER XXVI",
"CAROL'S liveliest interest was in her walks with the baby. Hugh wanted\nto know what the box-elder tree said, and what the Ford garage said, and\nwhat the big cloud said, and she told him, with a feeling that she was\nnot in the least making up stories, but discovering the souls of things.\nThey ... |
310 | 543_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We learn that Vida Sherwin's husband, Raymie Wutherspoon, has been wounded in the war and made into a fancy military captain for his trouble. Meanwhile, Miles Bjornstam sells his dairy and gets out of Gopher Prairie once and for all. His departure is crushing to Carol. A woman named Mrs. Flickerbaugh invites Carol over... | [
"CHAPTER XXVII",
"I",
"A LETTER from Raymie Wutherspoon, in France, said that he had been sent\nto the front, been slightly wounded, been made a captain. From Vida's\npride Carol sought to draw a stimulant to rouse her from depression.",
"Miles had sold his dairy. He had several thousand dollars. To Carol he\... |
311 | 543_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol goes to a meeting of the Jolly Seventeen and speaks to Maud Dyer, who for some reason has been really nice to Carol lately. Let's not forget that the last time we saw her, she was getting a private visit from Carol's husband Will... Maud Dyer tells all about a new young tailor named Erik who has moved into Gopher... | [
"CHAPTER XXVIII",
"IT WAS at a supper of the Jolly Seventeen in August that Carol heard of\n\"Elizabeth,\" from Mrs. Dave Dyer.",
"Carol was fond of Maud Dyer, because she had been particularly agreeable\nlately; had obviously repented of the nervous distaste which she had\nonce shown. Maud patted her hand when... |
312 | 543_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day, Carol goes walking with her son Hugh along the Gopher Prairie railroad tracks and runs into Erik Valbourg. Erik takes immediate notice of Hugh and straightens his outfit. Erik and Carol chat for a while about books, and Carol calls him out for not really knowing what he's talking about. Erik apologizes and ask... | [
"CHAPTER XXIX",
"SHE had walked up the railroad track with Hugh, this Sunday afternoon.",
"She saw Erik Valborg coming, in an ancient highwater suit, tramping\nsullenly and alone, striking at the rails with a stick. For a second\nshe unreasoningly wanted to avoid him, but she kept on, and she serenely\ntalked a... |
313 | 543_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fern Mullins, the new schoolteacher, busts into Carol's house and asks her to come on one last picnic before the school year starts. She also wants to bring along Cy Bogart, who will soon be a student of Fern's. Carol makes sure to invite Erik Valbourg along. While on the picnic, Valbourg invites Carol to take a boat r... | [
"CHAPTER XXX",
"FERN Mullins rushed into the house on a Saturday morning early in\nSeptember and shrieked at Carol, \"School starts next Tuesday. I've got\nto have one more spree before I'm arrested. Let's get up a picnic down\nthe lake for this afternoon. Won't you come, Mrs. Kennicott, and the\ndoctor? Cy Bogar... |
314 | 543_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol sits on the porch one evening while Will is out on a country house call. Erik comes marching onto the porch and touches her hand, saying that he saw Will drive out of town and decided to come over. Carol doesn't want any neighbors to see them, so she leads Erik into the house. Erik wants to see Carol's son sleepi... | [
"CHAPTER XXXI",
"THEIR night came unheralded.",
"Kennicott was on a country call. It was cool but Carol huddled on the\nporch, rocking, meditating, rocking. The house was lonely and repellent,\nand though she sighed, \"I ought to go in and read--so many things to\nread--ought to go in,\" she remained. Suddenly ... |
315 | 543_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol is outside doing some work when she overhears Mrs. Bogart from next door throwing Fern Mullins out of her house. Fern has been boarding with Mrs. Bogart until now, but Mrs. Bogart calls her an immoral harlot and kicks her into the street. When Carol asks what's going on, Bogart tells her that Fern took her poor, ... | [
"CHAPTER XXXII",
"I",
"CAROL was on the back porch, tightening a bolt on the baby's go-cart,\nthis Sunday afternoon. Through an open window of the Bogart house she\nheard a screeching, heard Mrs. Bogart's haggish voice:",
"\" . . . did too, and there's no use your denying it no you don't, you march\nyourself ... |
316 | 543_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol goes another month only seeing Erik Valbourg in casual situations, but he shows up on her doorstep the next time he sees Will heading into the country. He says he can't take it anymore and that he needs to see her. He wants her to come for a walk with him. Erik and Carol head deep enough into nature for no one to... | [
"CHAPTER XXXIII",
"FOR a month which was one suspended moment of doubt she saw Erik only\ncasually, at an Eastern Star dance, at the shop, where, in the\npresence of Nat Hicks, they conferred with immense particularity on the\nsignificance of having one or two buttons on the cuff of Kennicott's New\nSuit. For the... |
317 | 543_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The trip to California is a good one, although Carol still has a tough time compromising on the stuff she likes for the sake of what Will likes. All Will wants to do is talk to other travellers who are from his part of the world. Will and Carol's homecoming to Gopher Prairie is every bit as depressing as Carol thinks i... | [
"CHAPTER XXXIV",
"THEY journeyed for three and a half months. They saw the Grand Canyon,\nthe adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexico,\ntheir first foreign land. They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla to Los\nAngeles, Pasadena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions\nand ora... |
318 | 543_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol tries to keep herself as busy as possible in order to avoid thinking too much about her crummy life. She's happy when Vida Sherwin's husband Raymie finally comes back from the war. Gopher Prairie is booming because the price of wheat has been crazy high during the war. Still, all the money ends up funneling into ... | [
"CHAPTER XXXV",
"SHE tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms. She\nfanatically cleaned house all April. She knitted a sweater for Hugh.\nShe was diligent at Red Cross work. She was silent when Vida raved that\nthough America hated war as much as ever, we must invade Germany and\nwipe out every man... |
319 | 543_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Gopher Prairie gets more successful, it gets more and more intolerant of people who don't like it. Carol starts hearing stories about labor organizers being arrested. Will thinks it's all a great idea because he's drunk the pro-capitalist Kool-Aid. He and Carol continue to fight constantly, only now Will doesn't bac... | [
"CHAPTER XXXVI",
"KENNICOTT was not so inhumanly patient that he could continue to forgive\nCarol's heresies, to woo her as he had on the venture to California. She\ntried to be inconspicuous, but she was betrayed by her failure to glow\nover the boosting. Kennicott believed in it; demanded that she say\npatrioti... |
320 | 543_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol moves to Washington and finds a job in the War Risk Insurance bureau. It ain't all that interesting, but Carol loves having a job and being in the public sphere of a big city. The truth is that she really doesn't miss Gopher Prairie. Carol is also surprised to find that she's actually a little too conservative fo... | [
"CHAPTER XXXVII",
"I",
"SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Though the\narmistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to\nWashington, the work of the bureau continued. She filed correspondence\nall day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry. It was an\nendurance ... |
321 | 543_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a year in Washington, Carol starts craving more adventure than her office work allows her. She goes for a walk and sees two people she knows from Gopher Prairie. She's surprised at how happy she is to see them. Thirteen months after her move to Washington, Will comes to see her. The visit goes pretty well, but wh... | [
"CHAPTER XXXVIII",
"SHE had lived in Washington for a year. She was tired of the office.\nIt was tolerable, far more tolerable than housework, but it was not\nadventurous.",
"She was having tea and cinnamon toast, alone at a small round table on\nthe balcony of Rauscher's Confiserie. Four debutantes clattered i... |
322 | 543_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol moves back to Gopher Prairie and gives birth to a baby girl. Immediately, Carol starts making plans for her daughter's life, assuming that the future will give young women many more options than it has given her. Carol gets back into the routines of Gopher Prairie, but she refuses to ever accept the town the way ... | [
"CHAPTER XXXIX",
"SHE wondered all the way home what her sensations would be. She wondered\nabout it so much that she had every sensation she had imagined. She was\nexcited by each familiar porch, each hearty \"Well, well!\" and flattered\nto be, for a day, the most important news of the community. She bustled\na... |
323 | 543_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol Milford, escaped for an hour from Blodgett College, stands in relief against the "cornflower blue" of the Minnesota sky. Two generations ago, Chippewas camped on this hill overlooking the Mississippi. Today one sees the flour mills and skyscrapers of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Sharply etched against the sky, the g... | [
"CHAPTER I",
"I",
"ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago,\na girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky.\nShe saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of\nskyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws\nand ... |
324 | 543_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Local train No. 7 grumbles its way though Minnesota without porter, pillow, or berths, but jammed with farmers and their untidy families, workmen, and traveling salesmen. The atmosphere is thick and stale. Among the slatternly passengers, Dr. Will Kennicott and his bride, Carol, stand out as cool, clean, and prosperous... | [
"CHAPTER III",
"UNDER the rolling clouds of the prairie a moving mass of steel. An\nirritable clank and rattle beneath a prolonged roar. The sharp scent of\noranges cutting the soggy smell of unbathed people and ancient baggage.",
"Towns as planless as a scattering of pasteboard boxes on an attic floor.\nThe st... |
325 | 543_chapters_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. and Mrs. Kennicott spend a whole day hunting prairie chickens and squirrels with his new hammerless shotgun. Though the rough terrain hurts her feet and the sport is new to her, Carol enjoys the day, especially the contact with Mr. and Mrs. Rustad and her visit to their farm. At Mrs. Gurrey's boarding house, Carol ... | [
"CHAPTER V",
"I",
"\"WE'LL steal the whole day, and go hunting. I want you to see the\ncountry round here,\" Kennicott announced at breakfast. \"I'd take the\ncar--want you to see how swell she runs since I put in a new piston.\nBut we'll take a team, so we can get right out into the fields. Not many\nprairie c... |
326 | 543_chapters_8-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Without much success, Carol tries to get her husband to discuss his cases with her. Then Vida Sherwin calls and blows Carol's world to pieces. Vida says that her friend is the "pluckiest little idiot in the world," but a bit tactless. Carol dresses too well, is too frivolous, too chummy with her servant, and too irregu... | [
"CHAPTER VIII",
"\"DON'T I, in looking for things to do, show that I'm not attentive\nenough to Will? Am I impressed enough by his work? I will be. Oh, I will\nbe. If I can't be one of the town, if I must be an outcast----\"",
"When Kennicott came home she bustled, \"Dear, you must tell me a lot more\nabout you... |
327 | 543_chapters_11-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The women's study club, Thanatopsis, is meeting to consider the whole field of English poetry in one session, and Carol is invited. The program is dull and statistical. Shakespeare, Byron, Burns, Moore, Tennyson, Browning, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Gray, Mrs. Hemans, and Kipling are all disposed of, facts about t... | [
"CHAPTER XI",
"I",
"SHE had often been invited to the weekly meetings of the Thanatopsis,\nthe women's study club, but she had put it off. The Thanatopsis was,\nVida Sherwin promised, \"such a cozy group, and yet it puts you in touch\nwith all the intellectual thoughts that are going on everywhere.\"",
"Early... |
328 | 543_chapters_14-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Kennicotts have the first real quarrel of their married life, each enumerating the faults and shortcomings of the other. From her husband's point of view, Carol is highbrow, extravagant, and ungracious to his friends. She thinks of him as unappreciative of finer things, jealous of fellow practitioners, and stingy w... | [
"CHAPTER XIV",
"SHE was marching home.",
"\"No. I couldn't fall in love with him. I like him, very much. But\nhe's too much of a recluse. Could I kiss him? No! No! Guy Pollock at\ntwenty-six I could have kissed him then, maybe, even if I were married\nto some one else, and probably I'd have been glib in persuad... |
329 | 543_chapters_17-18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The idea of the Gopher Prairie Dramatic Association is born during a midwinter frolic at Jack Elder's shack. Carol again is jubilant and believes that she can yet "escape the coma of the Village Virus." Only twelve members form the nucleus of the association, and from the first there is diversity of opinion about the c... | [
"CHAPTER XVII",
"I",
"THEY were driving down the lake to the cottages that moonlit January\nnight, twenty of them in the bob-sled. They sang \"Toy Land\" and \"Seeing\nNelly Home\"; they leaped from the low back of the sled to race over the\nslippery snow ruts; and when they were tired they climbed on the runne... |
330 | 543_chapters_19-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After three years of exile from herself, Carol finally admits her longing to find her own people. Bea and Miles Bjornstam are married in June. The more powerful people of Gopher Prairie do not attend the wedding or call on the newlyweds afterward. Carol is unexpectedly appointed to the library board. She is amazed to f... | [
"CHAPTER XIX",
"I",
"IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences\nchronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly\nSeventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely\ncontrolling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people.",
"II",
"Bea... |
331 | 543_chapters_21-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is Vida Sherwin's chapter. In a flashback, the reader glimpses Vida's early life in a "hill-smothered Wisconsin village," her high-school teaching career, and her relation to Kennicott before his marriage. Although she had not encouraged Kennicott's few attempts at lovemaking five years before, she feels now that ... | [
"CHAPTER XXI",
"I",
"GRAY steel that seems unmoving because it spins so fast in the balanced\nfly-wheel, gray snow in an avenue of elms, gray dawn with the sun behind\nit--this was the gray of Vida Sherwin's life at thirty-six.",
"She was small and active and sallow; her yellow hair was faded, and\nlooked dry... |
332 | 543_chapters_24-27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All that summer Carol analyzes her husband, deciding that he is only a grown-up Hugh. One hot evening after a poker party at which she had been permitted only to serve food and drink to the men, she rebels, telling Kennicott that his friends have "the manners of a barroom." As the result of an argument wherein he calls... | [
"CHAPTER XXIV",
"I",
"ALL that midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott. She recalled\na hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco,\nthe evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had\nseemed to vanish with no trace or sequence. Always she repeated that\nh... |
333 | 543_chapters_28-32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Erik Valborg, nicknamed "Elizabeth" by the village boys, is working in Nat Hicks' tailor shop. Like Carol, he loves beautiful things and finds no intellectual companionship in Gopher Prairie. Carol first sees him in church and is struck by his unusual appearance. Later, however, at Sunday dinner with the Smails, Carol ... | [
"CHAPTER XXVIII",
"IT WAS at a supper of the Jolly Seventeen in August that Carol heard of\n\"Elizabeth,\" from Mrs. Dave Dyer.",
"Carol was fond of Maud Dyer, because she had been particularly agreeable\nlately; had obviously repented of the nervous distaste which she had\nonce shown. Maud patted her hand when... |
334 | 543_chapters_33-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol becomes conscious that her infatuation for Erik is deepening into love. He calls on her one evening in Will's absence, and they take a walk in the country. The doctor overtakes them in his car and orders them to ride home, Erik in the front seat and Carol, ignored, in the back. Once home, her husband tells Carol ... | [
"CHAPTER XXXIII",
"FOR a month which was one suspended moment of doubt she saw Erik only\ncasually, at an Eastern Star dance, at the shop, where, in the\npresence of Nat Hicks, they conferred with immense particularity on the\nsignificance of having one or two buttons on the cuff of Kennicott's New\nSuit. For the... |
335 | 543_chapters_35-38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | America is engaged in World War I, and Carol is doing Red Cross work and volunteer nursing. Raymie Wutherspoon, recovered from his wounds, returns as a major to a jubilant Vida and is made manager of the Bon Ton. He, however, is less impressive in civilian clothes than in uniform. Gopher Prairie is booming because of t... | [
"CHAPTER XXXV",
"SHE tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms. She\nfanatically cleaned house all April. She knitted a sweater for Hugh.\nShe was diligent at Red Cross work. She was silent when Vida raved that\nthough America hated war as much as ever, we must invade Germany and\nwipe out every man... |
322 | 543_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Returning to Gopher Prairie of her own volition, Carol finds that some of her old acquaintances have missed her, something that would not occur in Washington. The town has not changed, however, except for the new school building, seven new bungalows, and two garages. The men, including Dr. Westlake and Sam Clark, talk ... | [
"CHAPTER XXXIX",
"SHE wondered all the way home what her sensations would be. She wondered\nabout it so much that she had every sensation she had imagined. She was\nexcited by each familiar porch, each hearty \"Well, well!\" and flattered\nto be, for a day, the most important news of the community. She bustled\na... |
336 | 543_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carol Milford attends Blodgett College in Minneapolis in the early 1900s. One day, she escapes from class to look at the city skyline. Beautiful and vivacious, she has several male admirers, including a classmate named Stewart Snyder. During her senior year, Carol feels uncertain about choosing a particular profession.... | [
"CHAPTER I",
"I",
"ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago,\na girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky.\nShe saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of\nskyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws\nand ... |
337 | 543_chapters_4-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On her first day in Gopher Prairie, Carol goes for a walk to inspect the town. She covers the entirety of the small town on foot in thirty-two minutes. Most of the buildings and houses on Main Street appear haphazardly constructed. The Minniemashie House, the town's hotel and "fine-dining" establishment, has flyspecked... | [
"CHAPTER IV",
"I",
"\"THE Clarks have invited some folks to their house to meet us, tonight,\"\nsaid Kennicott, as he unpacked his suit-case.",
"\"Oh, that is nice of them!\"",
"\"You bet. I told you you'd like 'em. Squarest people on earth. Uh,\nCarrie----Would you mind if I sneaked down to the office for ... |
338 | 543_chapters_7-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Winter arrives. Unfulfilled by housework and shopping, Carol longs for activity and tries unsuccessfully to organize skiing and skating parties. One morning, she gives in to the urge to run down the street and jump across a pile of slush. However, she notices disapproving ladies glancing at her from their windows. Caro... | [
"CHAPTER VII",
"I",
"GOPHER PRAIRIE was digging in for the winter. Through late November and\nall December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might\ndrop to twenty below, or thirty. Winter is not a season in the North\nMiddlewest; it is an industry. Storm sheds were erected at every door.\nIn ever... |
327 | 543_chapters_11-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In March, Carol attends a meeting of the Thanatopsis Club, the women's study group. She is disappointed, however, when the ladies decide to discuss the whole subject of English poetry in one session. The ladies read dull, biographical statistics about English poets rather than reading or discussing actual poetry. The m... | [
"CHAPTER XI",
"I",
"SHE had often been invited to the weekly meetings of the Thanatopsis,\nthe women's study club, but she had put it off. The Thanatopsis was,\nVida Sherwin promised, \"such a cozy group, and yet it puts you in touch\nwith all the intellectual thoughts that are going on everywhere.\"",
"Early... |
328 | 543_chapters_14-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night, Carol and Kennicott have their first argument as a married couple. When she questions him about the other doctors in town, Kennicott tells her that they are not entirely honest and skillful practitioners. However, when Carol asks him if there is any professional jealousy between him and the other doctors, he... | [
"CHAPTER XIV",
"SHE was marching home.",
"\"No. I couldn't fall in love with him. I like him, very much. But\nhe's too much of a recluse. Could I kiss him? No! No! Guy Pollock at\ntwenty-six I could have kissed him then, maybe, even if I were married\nto some one else, and probably I'd have been glib in persuad... |
339 | 543_chapters_17-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In January, the Kennicotts and a group of friends bobsled to their lake cottages. As the others dance and play games, Carol enjoys herself thoroughly. Inspired, Carol proposes that they form a dramatic club. In order to get ideas for staging a play, she asks Kennicott to take her to Minneapolis so she can watch four mo... | [
"CHAPTER XVII",
"I",
"THEY were driving down the lake to the cottages that moonlit January\nnight, twenty of them in the bob-sled. They sang \"Toy Land\" and \"Seeing\nNelly Home\"; they leaped from the low back of the sled to race over the\nslippery snow ruts; and when they were tired they climbed on the runne... |
331 | 543_chapters_21-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fearful of remaining a spinster, Vida Sherwin marries Raymond Wutherspoon at the age of thirty-nine. She takes a very active part in all the activities of the town. She sometimes recalls how Kennicott had tried to woo her before he met Carol. Vida discouraged Kennicott but secretly hoped that he would continue to court... | [
"CHAPTER XXI",
"I",
"GRAY steel that seems unmoving because it spins so fast in the balanced\nfly-wheel, gray snow in an avenue of elms, gray dawn with the sun behind\nit--this was the gray of Vida Sherwin's life at thirty-six.",
"She was small and active and sallow; her yellow hair was faded, and\nlooked dry... |
340 | 543_chapters_24-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After her conversation with Bresnahan, Carol looks at Kennicott more critically. She realizes that he does not dress well and has uncouth table manners. The unbearable summer heat makes everyone in town very touchy, especially Carol. One evening, Kennicott casually informs her that his friends are coming over to play p... | [
"CHAPTER XXIV",
"I",
"ALL that midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott. She recalled\na hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco,\nthe evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had\nseemed to vanish with no trace or sequence. Always she repeated that\nh... |
341 | 543_chapters_27-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Carol remains unaware of her husband's affair with Maud Dyer, Maud pretends to be Carol's friend. At the Jolly Seventeen, Maud tells Carol about Nat Hicks's new assistant tailor, a young man who looks and acts so feminine that people call him Elizabeth. He wears a coat and tie, talks in a refined manner, and read... | [
"CHAPTER XXVII",
"I",
"A LETTER from Raymie Wutherspoon, in France, said that he had been sent\nto the front, been slightly wounded, been made a captain. From Vida's\npride Carol sought to draw a stimulant to rouse her from depression.",
"Miles had sold his dairy. He had several thousand dollars. To Carol he\... |
342 | 543_chapters_31-35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night, Erik visits Carol when Kennicott is not home. As Erik leaves the house, Carol sees Mrs. Westlake walking past. The next day, Kennicott tells Carol that Mrs. Westlake is spreading rumors about her around town and revealing the secret that Carol had confided to her. Kennicott warns Carol not to confide in Mrs.... | [
"CHAPTER XXXI",
"THEIR night came unheralded.",
"Kennicott was on a country call. It was cool but Carol huddled on the\nporch, rocking, meditating, rocking. The house was lonely and repellent,\nand though she sighed, \"I ought to go in and read--so many things to\nread--ought to go in,\" she remained. Suddenly ... |
343 | 543_chapters_36-39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kennicott feels hurt that Carol does not show any interest in the town's boosting campaign. He protests that he will no longer bear Carol's rebellion against the town. Carol tells him that she does not belong to Gopher Prairie and wants to leave. For a month, they argue about Carol's decision to leave, hurting each oth... | [
"CHAPTER XXXVI",
"KENNICOTT was not so inhumanly patient that he could continue to forgive\nCarol's heresies, to woo her as he had on the venture to California. She\ntried to be inconspicuous, but she was betrayed by her failure to glow\nover the boosting. Kennicott believed in it; demanded that she say\npatrioti... |
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