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A chorus girl in New York. Carrie becomes friends with her after joining the same theater company as a fellow chorus girl. After Carrie leaves Hurstwood, she lives with Lola for the remainder of the novel. Lola is optimistic, self-sufficient, and enjoys flirting with various young men in her social circles.
Lola Osborne Quotes in Sister Carrie
The Sister Carrie quotes below are all either spoken by Lola Osborne or refer to Lola Osborne. 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 42 Quotes
Carrie’s little soldier friend. Miss Osborne, seeing her succeeding, had become a sort of satellite. Little Osborne could never of herself amount to anything. She seemed to realise it in a sort of pussy-like way and instinctively concluded to cling with her soft little claws to Carrie.
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During her first days with the theater company, Carrie becomes friends with a fellow chorus girl, Lola Osborne. The two remain friends as Carrie receives promotions while Lola remains a chorus girl. Jealousy and condescension never enter the relationship. Indeed, the relationship between Carrie and Lola is perhaps one of the healthiest ones readers can find in the novel. Lola realizes that she “could never of herself amount to anything” and revolves around Carrie as “a sort of satellite.” Dreiser relates that she “[clings] with her soft little claws to Carrie.” Carrie enjoys the company and the two remain together Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a
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Lola Osborne Character Timeline in Sister Carrie
The timeline below shows where the character Lola Osborne appears in Sister Carrie. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 39 (Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds)
Carrie becomes close friends with the fellow chorus girl she had spoken with, Lola. Carrie, ashamed to say that she is married, lies to Lola that she lives “with...
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Lola introduces Carrie to several “gay and festive” young men. Carrie is unenthusiastic: “After Drouet and...
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Chapter 42 (A Touch of Spring: The Empty Shell)
Carrie’s friend Lola begins to cling to Carrie, realizing that she “could never of herself amount to anything.”...
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One day, Lola asks Carrie if she is willing to share an apartment, “the loveliest room and bath.”...
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...the last straw for Carrie and “that very day” she agrees to move in with Lola. They decide to move on Friday, which is two days away. Carrie begins to feel...
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Carrie borrows $25 from Lola that she had refused earlier, claiming that she “[wants] to get some other things.” On...
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Chapter 43 (The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark)
...[passes]” without his appearance, Carrie forgets him and becomes fully absorbed in her work. With Lola’s help, Carrie becomes “wise in theatrical lore.” As she reads “newspaper notices” about the opera,...
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...Carrie is “not so inexperienced as she looks.” Nevertheless, Carrie “could not help sharing in Lola’s love for a good time” and immerses herself in “the metropolitan whirl of pleasure.”
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...[is] no one she [knows] well enough to send them to.” Carrie notes that “only Lola, apparently, in all the world [is] interested.” She finds the metropolis “a cold place socially”...
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Chapter 44 (And This is Not Elf-Land: What Gold Will Not Buy)
...Carrie is now a “patron,” one whose “name is worth something.” Carrie asks about bringing Lola and Mr. Withers agrees. The two visit the apartment, “a suite on the parlour floor”...
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...she could not judge.” Carrie blames these things on the slowness of summer. She tells Lola about her loneliness, but Lola, “thinking of her own lightsome tourneys with the gay youths,”...
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Chapter 46 (Stirring Troubled Waters)
...because she has potential, she “must do something with it.” That night, Carrie relates to Lola a desire to take a part in “a serious play.”
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Chapter 47 (The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind)
...recommended to her. She realizes “how silly and worthless” her earlier reading was. Carrie and Lola briefly talk about the cold weather. Lola relates that she wants to “go sleigh riding”...
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