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Pre-Reading Questions:
1)What does the first paragraph suggest?
2)Why is Carrie turned away while she is trying to get
work in the department stores?
3) What do the two theater managers tell her when she manages to meet them?
4) What can you find from the letter Carrie writes to Hurtwood?
5) What does Carrie discover when she returns from the department stores?
·Topics for after-reading discussion:
1) When a girl, like Sister Carrie, leaves her home at
eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Which way of life do you
prefer?
2) In the first chapters of the novel, we are presented
that Sister Carrie enters the commercial part of the city, Chicago and starts looking for a job in the factories and shops, and finally becomes a shoe factory worker. What’s your response to her search for a job in this chapter?
Possible Answers to the Pre-Reading Questions:
1) It implies that since her support from Drouet is gone,
Carrie realizes that she only has seven dollars and she has to look for work herself.
2) Because they are still looking for women with
experience.
3) The two theater managers tell her that, as a beginner,
she should start in New York.
4) She writes to Hurstwood to say that she cannot have
anything more to do with him.
5) Carrie returns to discover that Drouet has come to get
some of his things. He had waited in the apartment, hoping to catch her there under the pretense of gathering his belongings and have a chance to make up with her.
Possible Answers to the topics for after-reading discussion:
1) Open to discussion
2) Whereas before she looked at department stores and
then factories, she now looks at theaters and then department stores. This really marks the transition away from manufacturing that Dreiser upholds throughout the novel. Much the way we see her move from her miller father to the salesman Drouet to the manager Hurstwood, her own job search progresses from manufacturing to selling to acting. For Dreiser, perhaps, the complete abandonment of manufacturing is the highest social achievement, one that Carrie is striving towards.。