Sister Carrie quotes

Question 1

Carrie wanting to increase social status

Answer 1

‘the sight of wealth and the merry life of the city had awakened in her a desire to reach something higher and to live better.’

Question 2

Hurstwood marriage

Answer 2

‘this was a chain which bound his feet.’

Question 3

Carrie sympathy for the poor

Answer 3

‘they had so little, she thought. it was so sad to be ragged and poor.’

Question 4

Hurstwood loving Carrie more

Answer 4

‘she increased in value in his eyes because of her objection. She was something to struggle for, and that was everything.’

Question 5

Hurstwood infatuation

Answer 5

‘he could have sold his soul to be with her alone.’

Question 6

Hurstwood old dreams

Answer 6

‘In Carrie he saw the embodiment of old experiences and old dreams.’

Question 7

Misogyny

Answer 7

‘just another pair of tights.’

Question 8

The wealthy in New York

Answer 8

‘become so conspicuously rich as to drown all moderate incomes in obscurity.’

Question 9

Dreiser on money and materialism

Answer 9

‘a craving…which…shall eternally result in dreams and death.’

Question 10

NYC

Answer 10

‘the city was one whirl of pleasure and delight’

Question 11

Women spending

Answer 11

‘women were spending money like water.’

Question 12

Ames rich

Answer 12

“I shouldn’t care to be rich…not rich enough to spend my money this way.’

Question 13

Ames materialism

Answer 13

“a man doesn’t need this sort of thing to be happy”

Question 14

Carrie poverty

Answer 14

‘everything about poverty was terrible.’

Question 15

Hustwood looking at money

Answer 15

‘he looked at the fat green roll as a sick man looks at the one possible saving cure.’

Question 16

The poor newspapers

Answer 16

‘newspapers, which played up the distress of the poor in large type.’

Question 17

Hurstwood addicted to money

Answer 17

‘like the morphine fiend’

Question 18

Factory worker starve

Answer 18

‘you could starve, by Jesus, right in the streets and there ain’t most no one would help you.’

Question 19

Workers’ violent methods

Answer 19

‘there was nothing so helpful to the companies as peaceful methods.’

Question 20

Striker to Hurstwood

Answer 20

“Don’t fight the poor. Leave that to the corporations.’

Question 21

Carrie experience poverty

Answer 21

‘Carrie had experienced too much of the bitterness of search and poverty.’

Question 22

Carrie realising money doesn’t get your dream

Answer 22

‘Carrie soon found that a little money brought her nothing. The world of wealth and distinction was quite as far away as ever.’

Question 23

Ames happiness

Answer 23

‘your happiness is within yourself wholly if you will only believe it.’

Question 24

Ames being moral

Answer 24

“If you want to do the most, do good. Serve the many. Be kind and humanitarian.”

Question 25

Always poor people

Answer 25

‘in times of prosperity, when little is heard of the unemployed, there were seldom less.’

Question 26

Peoples’ response to the poor

Answer 26

‘nothing was thought of it.’

Question 27

Hurstwood depressed

Answer 27

‘life had always seemed a precious thing, but now constant want and a weakened vitality had made the charms of earth rather dull and inconspicuous.’

Question 28

Hurtswood’s suicide caused by other people

Answer 28

‘it was only when he could get nothing but insults that death seemed worth while.’

Question 29

Lola won’t help the poor

Answer 29

“what can I do? I haven’t got anything”

Question 30

Appearance of poor men

Answer 30

‘men who were comparatively young but shrunken by diseases’

Question 31

Men in the factory

Answer 31

‘queer, hungry-looking individuals who looked as if want had driven them to desperate means.’

Question 32

Futility of Carrie’s dream

Answer 32

‘tomorrow it shall be on and further on, still leading, still alluring’

Question 33

the Captain poor

Answer 33

‘though he had scarcely the wherewithal to provide a comfortable habitation for himself.’