HIUS 131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30-38: Morphine, Sister Carrie
HIUS 131 – Textbook Notes – Sister Carrie, CHS 30-38
Chapter 30: The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream
• Very few wealthy people in Chicago; NYC wealthy, complicated, populated
• Hurstwood invests in a bar, but it doesn't go as well as he hoped, and he has to work hard and
watch his money
o Carrie doesn't like this
Chapter 31: A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts its Joys
• Carrie enjoying NYC more than she had expected to based on her first impression
• One year goes by
• Second year Hurstwood was making the money he expected, but knew that Carrie wanted more
• Hurstwood making friends and staying out more, leaving Carrie at home, thinking that she was
caught up in her domestic duties and didn't want to go out
• Hurstwood earning more so he's spending more on himself
• Carrie becoming friends with Mrs. Vance next door, and feeling jealous of her wealth
• Carrie and Mrs. Vance go to the theater, and Carrie takes part in display of women nicely dressed
for the theater and men looking at them
o Decides she won't come back until she is better dressed
Chapter 32: The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate
• Carrie longing to be on the stage again
• Carrie wanting to suffer in a luxurious world (287-88)
• Carrie watching women go into shops and spend money like it was nothing after the play
• Carrie increasingly interested in fashion because of Mrs. Vance, and asking for more and more
from Hurstwood
• Going out to dinner with the Vances and Mrs. Vance's cousin, Ames
• New hotels, more coaches, doormen
• "She was keenly aware of all the little things that were done - the little genuflections and
attentions of the waiters and head waiter which Americans pay for. The air with which the latter
pulled out each chair, and the wave of the hand with which he mentioned them to be seated,
were worth several dollars in themselves. Once seated, there began that exhibition of showy,
wasteful, and unwholesome gastronomy as practised by wealthy Americans, which is the wonder
and astonishment of true culture and dignity the world over"
• Tables even luxurious because they have embroidered napkins, Tiffany silverware, real china
• Ames thinks it's weird that people spend money to extravagantly
• Carrie thiks Aes to e ore eduated tha she is, ad thiks "It was fie to e so, as a a…"
• Ames criticizing the rich, and it's having somewhat of an effect on Carrie, though she mostly
rejects his ideas
• Carrie sad that she does not know if she will see Ames again
Chapter 33: Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years
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