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Carrie’s sister who lives in Chicago with her husband, Sven Hanson. Minnie is a diligent housewife who subscribes to her husband’s ideas of simplicity and economy. She spends her days at home doing housework, caring for her baby, and finding more ways to scrimp and save the family’s meager funds. Carrie finds Minnie’s life distasteful, and her unhappiness in Minnie and Hanson’s household is a large reason why Carrie agrees to be Drouet’s mistress.
Minnie Hanson Quotes in Sister Carrie
The Sister Carrie quotes below are all either spoken by Minnie Hanson or refer to Minnie Hanson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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On the first morning it rained [Carrie] found that she had no umbrella. Minnie loaned her one of hers, which was worn and faded. There was the kind of vanity in Carrie that troubled at this. She went to one of the great department stores and bought herself one, using a dollar and a quarter of her small store to pay for it.
“What did you do that for, Carrie?” asked Minnie, when she saw it.
“Oh, I need one,” said Carrie.
“You foolish girl.”
Carrie resented this, though she did not reply. She was not going to be a common shop-girl, she thought; they need not think it, either.
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Chapter 8
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“Where do you suppose she’s gone to?” said Minnie, thoroughly aroused.
“I don't know,” a touch of cynicism lighting his eye. “Now she has gone and done it.”
Minnie moved her head in a puzzled way.
“Oh, oh,” she said, “she doesn't know what she has done.”
“Well,” said Hanson, after a while, sticking his hands out before him, “what can you do?”
Minnie’s womanly nature was higher than this. She figured the possibilities in such cases.
“Oh,” she said at last, “poor Sister Carrie!”
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Minnie Hanson Quotes in Sister Carrie
The Sister Carrie quotes below are all either spoken by Minnie Hanson or refer to Minnie Hanson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
Quotes
On the first morning it rained [Carrie] found that she had no umbrella. Minnie loaned her one of hers, which was worn and faded. There was the kind of vanity in Carrie that troubled at this. She went to one of the great department stores and bought herself one, using a dollar and a quarter of her small store to pay for it.
“What did you do that for, Carrie?” asked Minnie, when she saw it.
“Oh, I need one,” said Carrie.
“You foolish girl.”
Carrie resented this, though she did not reply. She was not going to be a common shop-girl, she thought; they need not think it, either.
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Chapter 8
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“Where do you suppose she’s gone to?” said Minnie, thoroughly aroused.
“I don't know,” a touch of cynicism lighting his eye. “Now she has gone and done it.”
Minnie moved her head in a puzzled way.
“Oh, oh,” she said, “she doesn't know what she has done.”
“Well,” said Hanson, after a while, sticking his hands out before him, “what can you do?”
Minnie’s womanly nature was higher than this. She figured the possibilities in such cases.
“Oh,” she said at last, “poor Sister Carrie!”
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