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He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.  \nAlso available on Feedbooks Dreiser:  \n The Genius (1915)  \n Twelve Men (1919)  \n The Financier (1912)  \n Jennie Gerhardt (1911)  \n The Titan (1914)  \n An American Tragedy (1925)  \nCopyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.  \nNote: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks  \n[http://www.feedbooks.com](http://www.feedbooks.com)  \nStrictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.  \nCh t 1   \nap er  \nTHE MAGNET ATTRACTING—A WAIF AMID FORCES  \nWhen Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.  \nTo be sure there was always the next station, where one might descend and return. There was the great city, bound more closely by these very trains which came up daily. Columbia City was not so very far away, even once she was in Chicago. What, pray, is a few hours—a few hundred miles? She looked at the little slip bearing her sister's address and wondered. She gazed at the green landscape, now passing in swift review, until her swifter thoughts replaced its impression with vague conjectures of what Chicago might be.  \nWhen a girl 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. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand  \nlights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.  \nCaroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis. Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was, nevertheless, her guiding characteristic. Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certa","cbCaiuT3R9pNfczH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuT3R9pNfczH","pdf",2737201,427,"English","# Ch 1 - Part 1\n## The Magnet Attracting—A Waif Amid Forces","[{\"question\":\"Who is the protagonist introduced at the start of Chapter 1?\",\"answer\":\"The protagonist is Caroline Meeber, also called “Sister Carrie” by her family.\"},{\"question\":\"When does Caroline travel to Chicago, and what is her situation?\",\"answer\":\"She boards the afternoon train for Chicago in August 1889 at eighteen, carrying very limited belongings and money.\"},{\"question\":\"What central idea does the chapter’s narration emphasize about leaving home for the city?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that a young woman leaving home at eighteen either becomes better through “saving hands” or quickly adopts a cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse, with no true middle ground.\"}]","Sister Carrie - Part 1 - The Magnet Attracting - A Waif Amid Forces | PDF",658]