![]() ![]() ![]() Afterward, Charlie insists that Carrie stay in his apartment, claiming he is leaving on a business trip that night. During the meal, George sends some champagne to Carrie's table, and she begins to relax and enjoy herself. Charlie then appears and talks Carrie into staying. After Carrie inadvertently walks into Fitzgerald's "men only" bar, manager George Hurstwood happily escorts her to the restaurant. Carrie reluctantly accepts, but after Minnie chastises her for taking money from a strange man, she goes to Fitzgerald's, intending to return his ten dollars and break the date. Instead, Charlie gives her ten dollars and invites her to dine with him at Fitzgerald's, a fancy restaurant. ![]() Unable to find another job, Carrie shows up at Charlie's dry goods office and begs for work. Though the injury is minor, her boss sends her home, then replaces her. ![]() One day, in an effort to please her demanding boss, Carrie rushes to finish a shoe and gets her hand caught in her sewing machine. Despite her prediction that she will do well in the city, Carrie ends up working as a seamstress in a shoe factory, and living in squalid conditions with her sister Minnie and harsh brother-in-law Sven. Drouet, a smooth-talking, traveling dry goods salesman. In the late 1890s, after bidding her Missouri family goodbye, pretty Carrie Meeber boards a Chicago-bound train and soon is chatting with Charles S. ![]()
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