The first relationship often makes a big impact on the person, one that they will never forget. Carrie's journey begins on her train ride to Chicago. A very handsome and rich man, Drouet, takes note of Carrie and begins talking to her. She becomes overwhelmed at his quick advancement upon her and becomes weak and vulnerable. She quickly takes interest in him and does not know how to act or what to think as shown in this passage:

Love is a very complicated subject. No one knows whom he or she will find as their true love, nor do they know when. We go through many different experiences and can share and understand one another's, from prior experience ourselves. Carrie and Janie's stories are just examples of what one might find on his or her journey through love, and they help us to understand why things happen the way they do. Even though everyone may not go up the same path at the same time, they all end up going down one main road, and therefore suffer the same consequences as everyone else has.

as something satisfactory in the attention of this individual with good clothes....She realized that she was of interest to him from the one standpoint which a woman both delights in and fears. Her manner was simple, though for the very reason that she had not yet learned the many little affections with which women conceal their true feelings.

In the second relationship, things are often thought to be better, but it's not always the case. Both Carrie and Janie thought that they could make their lives better if they could just leave what they had behind and go off with

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)