'Well, if I were you,' he said, looking at her rather genially, 'I would try the department stores. Overwhelmed by the dazzling array of goods on display, Carrie is made to feel increasingly conscious of her humble condition, and begins to feel the first pangs of longing for the wealth and comfort that the late-nineteenth-century American city offered to its more privileged denizens. In 1862, Stewart built a larger department store the length of an entire city block.) The nineteenth-century department store was a glittering monument to consumerism and luxury. Stewart had built his 'Marble Palace' store in New York in 1846. (Although Dreiser locates the nation's first department store in Chicago in 1884, A.T. In this passage Carrie, on the verge of poverty after losing a job in a garment factory and desperately seeking work, stumbles into 'The Fair,' one of the city's department stores. The heroine of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie is a small-town girl thrust into the big-city life of a bustling late-nineteenth-century Chicago. 'Sister Carrie' Enters a 19th Century Temple of Consumerism Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945).Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913).Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877).

Colonization and Settlement (1621-1750).Military History and the LGBTQ+ Community.Two Wings of the Same Bird: Cuban Immigration and Puerto Rican Migration to the United States.Why They Fought: Ordinary Soldiers in the Civil War.Expansion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Early Twentieth Century Mexican Immigration to the U.S.Who Freed the Slaves? How a War for Union Became a War for Freedom.

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