●Chapter 1
● The Magnet Attracting—A Waif AmidForces
●Chapter 2
● What Poverty Threatened—Of Granuite andBrass
●Chapter 3
● Wee Question of Fortune—Four-Fifty a Week
●Chapter 4
● The Spendings of Fancy—Facts Answer With Sneers
●Chapter 5
● A GUttering Night Hower the Use of a Name
●Chapter 6
● The Machine and the Maiden A Knight of To-day
●Chapter 7
● The Lure of the Material Beauty Speaks for Itself
●Chapter 8
● Intimations by Winter—An Ambassador Sunnnoned
●Chapter 9
● Convention's Own ~nder-Box- The Eye
● That Is Green
●Chapter 10......
內容簡介
十八歲的嘉莉,漂亮而膽小,性格單純,為了謀生,她滿懷著希望和對大都市繁華生活的幻想來到芝加哥,可是面對她的卻是貧困與失業。無奈之下,她和推銷員杜洛埃同居,後來又成為酒店經理赫斯渥的情婦。在紐約,一個偶然的機會使嘉莉成為演員,並大獲成功。但是豐裕的生活並未帶給她幸福,她依然覺得孤獨、無助,她不知道耀眼的光華背後有多少謊言、邪惡和偽善在等著她……