A fluke that goes with the flow
When a girl of eighteen leaves home, one of two things happens to her. Either she get better with the help of good people, or she quickly accept the world's moral standards and fall. It's impossible to stay in the middle in this environment." Sister Carrie is the author's experiment, and Chicago is her battleground.
Carrie's sense of dress, her fear of entering a large department store for the first time, her timidity in looking for work, the steadiness of the soft, fine green bill in her hand, the illusion of affluence, the struggle before the elopement with Drouet and the final comfort of being seduced by comfort, the satisfaction of gaining the upper hand in the relations with Drouet and Hurstwood, all these details showed me a complete Carrie. As if to see the drunk tears of the little girl behind everything.
But Ames appeared to Sister Carrie like a kind of divine revelation and sublimation. Carrie, having seen him, mentally compared every man with him and found all the others empty. She was inspired to become an actress by Ames, who said that acting is a profession that requires genius. She even started reading books (Balzac) to communicate with Him on an equal basis. The progressive youth's ultimate inspiration to her.
"Men are always struggling to express themselves -- to articulate, to articulate their hopes and worries. They are always looking for ways to express themselves, and anyone who can express these feelings for them pleases them. You and I are just agents, something can be expressed through us. Our responsibility now is to make ourselves ready-made agents ".
"If you will do as much as you can, do it well and serve the many. Be kind and humane. Then you are bound to be great."
We never know when or whose words we will hear, but those words can change our beliefs for life, shape future choices large and small, and ultimately define us. Carrie can listen to Ames, for Carrie, which is a fluke that goes with the flow.
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