Theodore dreiser carrie6/3/2023 To press his case, he slips Carrie two ten dollar bills, opening a vista of material possibilities to her. He persuades her to leave her dull, constricted life and move in with him. One day, after an illness costs her job, she encounters Drouet. They exchange contact information, but upon discovering the "steady round of toil" and somber atmosphere at her sister's flat, she writes to Drouet and discourages him from calling on her there.Ĭarrie soon finds a job running a machine in a shoe factory and gives most of her meager salary to the Hansons for room and board. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and unspoiled manner. In late 1889, dissatisfied with life in Columbia City, Wisconsin, 18-year-old Caroline Meeber, "Sister Carrie" to her family, takes the train to Chicago, to live with her older sister Minnie and Minnie's husband. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels". She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous actress. Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. A kinetoscope film of turn-of-the-century Chicago, the initial setting of Sister Carrie
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