Sister Carrie

The novel, “Sister Carrie’’, is full of much drama and manipulation. The protagonist seeks living in the high class way and is determined to do so. In order to get what she wants, she uses others to get it for her. She is so obsessed with fame and wealth that she manipulates whoever and whenever with her charm and grace. The protagonist, Carrie, was an intriguing character. She appeared to be very emotional and unstable in her feelings. She was over the moon at certain times of the day and depressed

Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a simple tale of a young, pretty eighteen year old girl Caroline Meeber also know as Carrie. When Carrie got on the train from Columbia City to Chicago she had only few cheap items in her trunk and her sister’s address on a piece of paper. Being only eighteen she was still "full of the illusions of ignorance and youth"(Dreiser, 7). She was both afraid of the things to come and exited by the countless possibilities offered by one of the largest cities

Characterization in Sister Carrie      The theme of unrequited love and unfulfilled ambitions, against a backdrop of a nation being transformed by industrialism and capitalism, provides the substance of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie.  During the late 19th Century we encounter three main characters who demonstrate this underlying motif:  Carrie Meeber, Charles H. Drouet, and George W. Hurstwood.  Carrie will fulfill many of her desires for riches and success, but her insatiable appetite will

Class and Society Sister Carrie is a story of an ordinary girl, Carrie Meeber, who is from a lower-middle class. Carrie leaves her parents and her small Midwestern town. She travels to Chicago to stay with her sister Minnie and her brother-in-law. She thinks that her miserable life will change by getting a new job in Chicago. The novel represents the distinction between social classes that characters from lower middle class face in their society. They work hard in order to rise above

material things without working for them.3 Through these actions, some Americans even began to discard traditional American mores and values that were once held so highly. Theodore Dreiser?s novel Sister Carrie is an example of the drastic changes happening in this time period. ?Sister Carrie from the beginning was discussed as a moral problem.?4 Dreiser?s first novel was almost ?consigned to limbo.?5 Society could not accept a novel that disobeyed the social values, mores, and rules of the

might lead the author to be seen as conservative, his empathy for Carrie’s position seems to represent his view on contemporary women. Thus, Sister Carrie is initially described as having “an average little conscience”, and being urged into the position of the traditional women (Dreiser 92). However, despite the fact that she wants to be a consumerist, Carrie can certainly be considered to be a rebel. When the Hansons tried to transform her personality, “her heart revolted” as much as when Hurstwood

read “Sister Carrie” because I thought I could relate to it, Carrie was a small town girl who left her home to chase her dreams. The novel opens with Carrie on a train leaving her home, heading to Chicago. Here she meets Drouet, who will be a large part of the novel. Carrie immediately looks for work when she arrives, and is unsuccessful for a long time until she finds a low paying job at a shoe factory with awful working conditions. Drouet and Carrie’s relationship begins when he tells Carrie to stop

Analysis of naturalism in Sister Carrie Naturalism emerged in the mid of the 19th century in America as an outgrowth of realism. It was inspired by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Naturalism stresses the idea that any individual has a predetermined destiny influenced by social factors and that one's character is formed on the basis of heredity. One's life is governed by environment and heredity which can't be controlled by anyone. Sister Carrie is a novel describing the harsh realities of the

that Theodore Dreiser’s novel, Sister Carrie, portrays is only a half-truth. By examining Sister Carrie’s character, she is readily deemed as passive, weak, and full of superficial desires and yet in this profoundly inert nature lies the seed for the greater expression of an artistic soul. However, this realization is only drawn out by Ames’s archetypically scholarly eyes (the intelligent but withdrawn engineer); bringing forth the powerful and intimate beauty that Carrie possesses, which without a photograph


Philosophies of Sister Carrie
 There are few writers that could create a body of work that encompasses as many concepts as Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. His novel follows the life and times of Carrie, a ‘country bell’ of sorts who abandons her way of life in favor of a city lifestyle. Through through Carries progress, Dreiser embodies many philosophies of intelligence, experience, and personal growth. Many great philosophers have touched subjects that are apparent in Dreiser’s work. Sister Carrie epitomizes