Frank Norris

The Pit A Story of Chicago annotated Frank Norris

The Pit opens with sisters Laura and Page Dearborn and their aunt, Aunt Wes, outside the Auditorium Theatre opera house awaiting the arrival of their hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Cressler. . For their conversation begins with the artist confessing his love for the young woman. Though she does not return this feeling, Laura admits that knowing she is loved is "the greatest exhilaration of happiness she had ever known. Gretry in the library - even when you are not doing all that, your mind seems to be away from me - down there in La Salle Street or the Board of Trade Building. The couple decides to leave Chicago and head west, and the reader is left with the feeling that the Jadwins, despite the horrors they've just been through, have found happiness at last.