Pleasure Reading №7

Chapters 43-47

Carrie enjoyed her success and life without Mr. Hurstwood in a small flat for 3 dollars per week. The life seemed to Carrie free and interesting, the roles in the theater successful; she even started to receive letters from men who asked her to meet with them for any money. May be earlier Caroline paid attention to them, but not now. Now she, Miss Medenda, had publicity, money and freedom, her photos were in any papers and everyone in New York knew her. The manager of the theater offered her 150 dollars per week and the manager of a fashionable hotel asked Carrie to live there to engage tourists.

Being alone Hurstwood did not know how to survive because he still had no work, no money and no Carrie. Having spent leaving money, the man lost hope of a normal life, his only way was to live by begging. Only one time he came to Carrie and asked her money. Their ways became completely different and nothing would unite them.

One day Mr. Drouet visited Carrie but he no longer seemed to her as an upper-classed man with charm and elegant clothes, the woman had the opposite feelings. Carrie talked with him once in her room in a new hotel and stopped think about him. From the conversation she found out about Hurstwood’s money story but did feel nothing except pity. Hurstwood’s daughter married with a rich man and with Mrs. Hurstwood they traveled to Europe. Carrie did not hear more about her former lover because he had died. Caroline had everything what earlier had seemed to her the high of life but she was not happy and all her life she spent in such feelings.

The End