Sister Carrie
A Literature, Academic, Novels book. How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the...
Carrie Meeber leaves her home in rural Wisconsin for big-city life in Chicago, and faces a series of struggles -- professional, moral, and romantic -- before achieving success in the New York theater scene.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of...
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A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoiter the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject - the proper penitent, groveling at a woman's slipper. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie // The long drizzle had begun. Pedestrians had turned up collars and trousers at the bottom. Hands were hidden in the pockets of the umbrella-less - umbrellas were up. The street looked like a sea of round, black-cloth roofs, twisting, bobbing, moving. Trucks and vans were rattling in a noisy line, and everywhere men were shielding themselves as best they could. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie // How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie //
Theodore Dreiser and Emile Zola are both in the naturalist camps of literature, and indeed, I found many similarities between Sister Carrie and Nana. The major difference however, is that Dreiser choses to lead Hurstwood, his formerly affluent male protagonist to a bitter, self-induced end in a flophouse (reminiscent of Edith Wharton's... Fans of "Jude the Obscure" Sister Carrie tells the story of two characters. Carrie Meeber is a young country girl from Wisconsin who moves to Chicago to realize her American dream. She begins as a low-paid wage earner and ends up a highly paid actress. George Hurstwood is part of the upper-middle class enjoying comfortable lifestyle. Through a series of circumstances...
