Chapter 1

What is the main idea of this chapter?

What does Jim Burden do for a living?

The two friends talk about their childhood, in particular a Bohemian girl they both knew.

What does this girl represent to them?

What do the two friends agree to do?

Find paragraph 4, which begins: "As for Jim, no disappointments have been severe enough to chill his naturally romantic and ardent disposition. This disposition, though it often made him seem very funny when he was a boy, has been one of the strongest elements in his success."

What does "disposition" mean in this context?