Assignments for Analysis. 1. In what way is Caroline Meeber representative of thousands of young people who leave a small town for life in a big city?

1. In what way is Caroline Meeber representative of thousands of young people who leave a small town for life in a big city? At which point in the narrative does the author make an obvious generalization?

2. What language means does the author use to describe Carrie’s belongings?

3. How does the author manage to picture the cunningness of a city?

4. Does Caroline appear to be the type of person you could like or admire? Explain. What emotion do you feel towards her?

5. What does the author employ to describe Carrie’s intellectual abilities? Her appearance? How does he estimate her capability of an independent life in general?

6. Carrie and the young man she met on the train are contrasted by the author. Identify the points of contrast between them.

7. Comment on the use of the word ‘masher’.

Before you make an overall analysis, indicate the following SDs & try to explain their role in the story, if there is any:

1. When 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 on Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.

2. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterized her thoughts, it was certainly not for ad­vantages now being given up.

3. 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.

4. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.

5. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinat­ing eye.

6. Without a counselor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear!

7. Books were beyond her interest – knowledge a sealed book.

8. A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoiter the mys­terious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject – the proper penitent, groveling at a woman’s slipper.

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