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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Carrie goes to her sister, Minnie’s, flat and assesses the living situation.
Chapter 3
Carrie goes looking for a job. She is told to return to a shoe factory in the morning.
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Carrie realises she won’t be able to live at her sister’s for long. Tension grows between Carrie and
her sister and brother in law, the Hansons. Carrie meets Drouet again and he promises to help her.
Chapter 7
Drouet gives Carrie money to buy clothes. She rents a room and quietly moves out of the Hansons’
apartment.
Chapter 8
Drouet takes Carrie out, buys her thing and spoils her. He arranges for her to meet Mr Hurstwood.
Chapter 9
Hurstwood’s home life is outlined. He is married and has two children. He is not particularly happy.
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Carrie goes to the theatre with Hurstwood & Drouet. She begins to admire Hurstwood.
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
The play begins badly, but Carrie improves her performance quickly and becomes the star of the
show. Hurstwood decides he must marry Carrie, but Drouet has the same thought.
Chapter 20
Drouet finds out that Hurstwood visited Carrie frequently whilst he was away.
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Mrs Hurstwood learns of Carrie and tells Hurstwood she is leaving him.
Chapter 23
Drouet confronts Carrie and tells her that Hurstwood is married. They argue. Drouet storms out.
Chapter 24
Carrie fails to meet Hurstwood for lunch. Mrs Hurstwood sends her husband a message that she
wants money. He goes home to try to speak to her, but finds he has been locked out.
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Carrie looks for a job and writes to Hurstwood to let him know she is aware of his deception.
Chapter 27
Hurstwood considers stealing money from his employers, Fitzgerald and Moy. He plans to run away
and lies to Carrie that Drouet is in hospital.
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Carrie and Hurstwood “marry”. Hurstwood uses the fake name ‘Wheeler’ so he is not arrested for
bigamy. The pair head to New York.
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Carrie meets her new neighbours, the Vances. She is impressed by them and feels shabbily dressed
by comparison. She feels she is not up to their standard.
Chapter 32
Carrie meets Mrs. Vance's cousin, Bob Ames, who's visiting from Indianapolis. Carrie goes to the
theatre with the Vances and Ames. When Carrie returns to her apartment, she finds Hurstwood
already in bed. She can't bring herself to get into the bed with him so she goes to the dining room to
curl up in the rocking chair and think.
Chapter 33
Carrie and Hurstwood move to a smaller flat, but Hurstwood gets bad news about his business and
their future looks bleak.
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Hurstwood begins to age and gives up looking for a job. Carrie begins to resent him.
Chapter 36
Mrs Vance visits and Carrie is humiliated. She rows with Hurstwood and he goes out. He plays Poker
and loses most of their money.
Chapter 37
Carrie decides to find an acting job. She learns an agent will cost $50.
Chapter 38
Carrie gets a part as a chorus girl and Hurstwood comes to depend on her income.
Chapter 39
Carrie is rewarded for her efforts at the theatre by being made Head Chorus Girl.
Chapter 40
Hurstwood takes advantage of the strike and decides to apply for a job.
Chapter 41
Hurstwood gets a job as a mailman driver. His car is attacked on his first run. He finds it exciting, but
then he is beaten by protesters. A shot is fired, Hurstwood is terrified and flees down a side street.
He goes home and reads of the riots breaking out across the city.
Chapter 42
Carrie gets a new job with a higher salary. She agrees to move in with Lola to a shared
accommodation so she can spend more money on clothes. She doesn’t tell Hurstwood that she is
leaving. Instead, she waits for him to go out before packing up her belongings and leaving him a
farewell note.
Chapter 43
Carrie enjoys her new life with Lola and is successful in her acting career. She is promoted and earns
an increase in her wages.
Chapter 44
Carrie is inundated with fan mail from rich men wanting to marry her. Moreover, she gets her first
really big paycheck: $150. She's thrilled to be raking it in now, as she thinks back to earlier days
when she was only making a pittance. But things aren't perfect: Carrie is lonely, as she tells Lola, but
Lola tells her she just needs to go out more.
Chapter 45
Hurstwood runs out of money, gets ill, looks for a job and ends up begging on the streets. He ends
up homeless and starving.
Chapter 46
Drouet goes to see Carrie at the theatre. When Drouet asks about Hurstwood, Carrie only says that
she thinks he's still in New York. Drouet fills her in about Hurstwood having stolen the money back in
Chicago, and she's shocked. Hearing the news actually makes her feel sorry for Hurstwood.
The next night on her way into the theater, Carrie runs smack into Hurstwood, who's hanging around
waiting for her. She hardly recognizes him because he looks so bad, and when he asks for money,
she immediately gives it to him. She asks what's wrong with him and he says that he's been sick and
that he's living in a room in the Bowery. Then he leaves.
Chapter 47
Hurstwood continues to struggle and suffer. This is contrasted with news that Carrie is staying at the
Waldorf. Hurstwood pays for a room at the Bowery, turns on the gas and lies down. He commits
suicide and we're told "[Carrie] was not even aware." As the book ends, we leave Carrie in her
rocking chair by the window.