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 of the late 19th century – Chicago.
As soon as Carrie arrives in Chicago various obstacles face her. She has no experience at working outside home, which makes finding any work very difficult. She does not like the simple, and in her view, boring way of life her sister and brother in law live.
Being this young and curious woman she yearns for more than what is around her. She has no education, no wealth to fall on and as we read the novel we also discover she has no morals. Even though at some point Dreiser claims that Carrie is "the victim of the city’s hypnotic influence"(Dreiser, 79) it becomes clear that in fact she is not a helpless victim by any means – she just simply goes along with anything and anyone who comes along. Tired and disappointed with her early days at a low paying hard work
Carrie chooses to leave her sister – the only real family she has in the city – and goes off with a Drouet, a man she just recently met on the train. Carrie knew nothing ...
In this essay, the author
- Narrates theodore dreiser's sister carrie, about a young, pretty eighteen year old girl caroline meeber.
- Narrates how carrie arrives in chicago with no experience at working outside home, which makes finding work difficult, and dislikes the simple, boring way of life her sister and brother in law live.
- Analyzes how dreiser claims that carrie is 'the victim of the city's hypnotic influence', but it becomes clear that she is not a helpless victim by any means.
- Explains that carrie knew nothing about drouet except that he seemed to like her and appeared to have more money than she could ever get her hands on. as soon as an opportunity to leave her boring life arrived, she took it and never looked back.
- Narrates how carrie met hurstwood, a manager at fitzgerald and moy's, through drouet. she flirted and spent time with him, but he was twice her age.
- Analyzes how hurstwood left his wife, children, and a job to carry on his affair with carrie.
- Analyzes how carrie, a famous and popular new york actress, didn't possess what she desired. people admired her, she was paid well, but there was always something missing.
- Analyzes how carrie expressed no feelings of shame, regret, guilt or remorse for hurting drouet and leading hurstwood to his lonely death in a strange city among strangers.
- Opines that carrie could never achieve a position of victorian woman with all the trimmings implied: wealth, education, family background, and values.
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- Analyzes how carrie meeber leaves her small town to find employment in the city of chicago. theodore dreiser informs the reader that self-interest with her was high, but not strong.
- Narrates how carrie was scared when she tried to find a job. she had no skills to offer an employer, no job experience, and her clothing was of poor quality.
- Narrates how carrie met a traveling salesman, charlie h. drouet, on the train to chicago. she is impressed by the way he talks and dresses.
- Analyzes how carries decides to return to wisconsin or let drouet keep her as his mistress — it was unthinkable for any decent woman to live with a man without marriage.
- Analyzes how carrie had gone with drouet because of financial need to avoid returning to her hometown. she loves hurstwood and agrees to leave with him believing that they will marry right away.
- Narrates how carrie can't find a job and hurstwood forces her to leave with him because of financial reasons. as her theater career rises and her social status improves, he becomes an intelligent, assured, and cultured man
- Explains that carrie had always thought that if she ever got wealth and position, she would be completely happy. a friend introduces her to bob ames, unlike any man that she met before.
- Analyzes how carrie was young, innocent, and scared when she first arrived in chicago. with no skills, she can't find a job and lives with two men as their mistress.
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- Narrates how carrie gets pampered by drouet and polishes her acting talent by imitating the mannerisms of the ladies that he is attracted to.
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- Analyzes how carrie has an excessive greed for things such as clothing and money. upon meeting drouet, she immediately is blinded to the advantages he can bring her.
- Opines that carrie came to chicago in pursuit of the american dream because of "the drag of a lean and narrow life".
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- Analyzes how hurstwood's upper-class appearance impresses carrie, who is unaware of the possibility of it due to the lifestyle he lives.
- Analyzes how hurstwood's evolving failure shows that "her experience in chicago proved that she had not tried the right way."
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- Analyzes how the economic forces presented in the novel allow both carrie and hustwood to fall in given circumstances.
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