Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries

Caroline Meeber 18 years old, takes a train to Chicago, where her sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, agrees to let her move in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman and they decided to meet up the next week. Carrie soon looks for work to pay rent to her sister and her husband, and she finds a job running a machine in a shoe factory. One day, after she got sick she lost her job, she meets Drouet on a the street. He persuades her to leave her sister and move in with him the next day. Drouet gives her in a much larger apartment, she gets a classy wardrobe and, by the time Drouet introduces Carrie to George Hurstwood, the manager of Fitzgerald and Moy's. Hurstwood, unhappy with his marriage and relationship with his wife and kids, he
He steals it and lures Carrie onto a train and escapes with her to Canada. Once they arrive in Canada Hurstwood’s feels guilty and return most of the stolen funds, but he realizes that he cannot return to Chicago. Hurstwood and Carrie get married, and the couple move to New York City. In New York, Hurstwood buys a smaller apartment at first, is able to provide Carrie with a satisfactory standard of living. The couple grow distant. Hurstwood soon discovers that his savings are running out and urges Carrie to save, which she finds embarrassing and offensive. Carrie turns to New York’s theatres for employment and becomes a chorus girl. Once again Carrie begins to rise from chorus girl to small speaking roles, Hurstwood becomes poor, driving a Brooklyn streetcar during a streetcar worker’s strike Carrie leaves him; Hurstwood joins the homeless of New York, and becoming a beggar. He commits suicide Meanwhile, Carrie accomplishes fame, but finds that money and fame do not satisfy her longings or bring her happiness and that nothing