This book shows how human beings do not have any power over their own futures, but simply move through life in a series of opportunities. Carrie chases her dreams of fortune and fame through relationships with men. She struggles with poverty, complicated relationships with men, and even prostitution. Her main goal is life is to achieve “American Dream.” But her life in the city isn’t as easy as she expected. The story consists of the story of Carrie Meeber, who is a young country girl, who flees rural life for the big city of Chicago. The author Theodore Dreiser started to write Sister Carrie in 1889, and it was published in 1900. And eventually, Sister Carrie became Dreiser’s most bought out, successful, novel. In America, Sister Carrie was sold very poorly and not widely publicized because how the book described middle class and moral objection of Sister Carrie were considered controversial and immoral by Americans. However, unlike the Americans, British people appreciated Dreiser’s work, and the English version was printed in 1901 where the book was greatly successful as far as sales.Īlthough the book did not sell very well, it was redeemed by writers such as William Dean Howells and Frank Norris thought it as a breakthrough in American realism. Not only Sister Carrie, but also his other novels often featured main characters who achieved their goals despite a lack of a good moral, and are full of tragedies and miserable side of the society. He based his first novel, Sister Carrie, on the life of his sister Emma, who ran away to Toronto, Canada with a married man who stole money from his employer. Soon after, he went on to marry his cousin, Helen Richardson.ĭuring his time of marriage and affairs, he began to write novels.

In 1898, he married Sara White, but soon got divorced after she knew his infatuation for another woman. Theodore Dreiser:ĭreiser was born in 1871 in United States, and was a journalist before he became a novelist. Org.This idea was supported by writers who held that realism was too sophisticated in tone to reveal the harsh reality.ĭreiser is known as the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism and Sister Carrie is the work in which naturalism attained maturity._ goal: bit of self-sabotage crossword clue.

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