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Jessica Hurstwood
Mr. Vance’s wife. She lives across the hall from Carrie and Hurstwood in New York. She and Carrie become fast friends. Mrs. Vance is young, beautiful, and decked from head to toe in the latest fads. Carrie is jealous of Mrs. Vance’s superior financial situation and, as a result, grows increasingly dissatisfied with Hurstwood’s lack of ability to provide her with a life of luxury.
Mrs. Vance Quotes in Sister Carrie
The Sister Carrie quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Vance or refer to Mrs. Vance. 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 31
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[Carrie] could not, for the life of her, assume the attitude and smartness of Mrs. Vance, who, in her beauty, was all assurance. She could only imagine that it must be evident to many that she was the less handsomely dressed of the two. It cut her to the quick, and she resolved that she would not come here again until she looked better. At the same time she longed to feel the delight of parading here as an equal. Ah, then she would be happy!
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Mrs. Vance Quotes in Sister Carrie
The Sister Carrie quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Vance or refer to Mrs. Vance. 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 31
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[Carrie] could not, for the life of her, assume the attitude and smartness of Mrs. Vance, who, in her beauty, was all assurance. She could only imagine that it must be evident to many that she was the less handsomely dressed of the two. It cut her to the quick, and she resolved that she would not come here again until she looked better. At the same time she longed to feel the delight of parading here as an equal. Ah, then she would be happy!
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