# Sister Carrie — Character guide

> Key figures in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.

- [Caroline Meeber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/caroline_meeber.md): Carrie arrives in the city with little more than nervousness and appetite, and the men who help her — Drouet, then Hurstwood — quickly become the terms on which she eats, dresses, and lives. Her defining tension is betwe
- [George Hurstwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/george_hurstwood.md): Hurstwood is the well-dressed, well-liked manager of Fitzgerald and Moy's, a man whose whole standing rests on appearances he can no longer afford to keep. His affair with Carrie forces him into lies at home and a slow, 
- [Charles Drouet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/charles_drouet.md): Drouet is the drummer who spots Carrie on the train to Chicago, buys her a meal, and later sets her up in a flat with the easy generosity of a man who never quite counts the cost. He is vain, breezy, and genuinely fond o
- [Julia Hurstwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/julia_hurstwood.md): Mrs. Hurstwood presides over the family's respectable Chicago home with a sharp eye for status and a sharper tongue for her husband's shortcomings. Her suspicion of his absences and her determination to protect her own p
- [Jessica Hurstwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/jessica_hurstwood.md): Hurstwood and Julia's fashionable daughter who cares little for her father.
- [George Hurstwood Jr.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/george_hurstwood_jr.md): Hurstwood's son who works at a Chicago department store.
- [Minnie Hanson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/minnie_hanson.md): Carrie's older sister who lives with her husband in Chicago.
- [Sven Hanson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/sven_hanson.md): Minnie's stern and frugal husband who disapproves of Carrie.
- [Mrs. Vance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/mrs_vance.md): Mrs. Vance lives one floor away in the same respectable building, but her flat, her playing, and her manner belong to a more luxurious world that Carrie studies with hungry attention. Their acquaintance begins with a for
- [Mr. Vance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/mr_vance.md): Mrs. Vance's wealthy husband who enjoys socializing.
- [Lola](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/lola.md): Lola is the little actress who shares a room with Carrie when the chorus pay starts coming in, quick to celebrate a notice and quicker to warn her to save for the summer. She is generous with praise and practical about m
- [Robert Ames](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/robert_ames.md): An intelligent young man who offers Carrie intellectual companionship.
- [Dr. Beale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/dr_beale.md): A physician who treats Hurstwood during his decline.
- [Harry Quincel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/harry_quincel.md): A theatrical manager who helps cast Carrie in a play.
- [Mr. Bamberger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/mr_bamberger.md): A theatrical figure involved in the production Carrie joins.
- [Mrs. Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/mrs_morgan.md): A landlady who rents rooms to Carrie in New York.
- [Miss Osborne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/miss_osborne.md): A young actress in the same theatrical company as Carrie.
- [Mr. Withers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/mr_withers.md): The manager of the shoe factory where Carrie briefly works.
- [Moy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/moy.md): A Chinese man who runs a laundry in New York.
- [Shaughnessy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/shaughnessy.md): A neighbor who helps Hurstwood during a snowstorm.
- [Mrs. Hale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/mrs_hale.md): A wealthy acquaintance of the Hurstwoods in Chicago.
- [Oeslogge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/oeslogge.md): A grocer who extends credit to Hurstwood.
- [John B. Drake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/john_b_drake.md): Owner of the Drake Hotel in Chicago.
- [Frank Hale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/frank_hale.md): A wealthy Chicago businessman and friend of Hurstwood.
- [Sagar Morrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sister_carrie_se/characters/sagar_morrison.md): A man who works at the theater.

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