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An American Tragedy Volume 1 Book 2 Chapter XIII
In which a young woman named Roberta seeks employment in a hosiery factory to improve her prospects beyond the modest poverty of her rural upbringing, while navigating the narrow social customs and constrained ambitions of a small industrial town. She finds herself caught between the allure of a larger world and the rigid confines of conventional morality, observing the lives of factory workers and their limited hopes amid the hum of the mills.
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