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		Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis.
		Carrie, however, was not to be reduced to the common level of observation which prevailed in the flat.
		Carrie was afraid of what she was going to do, but she was relieved to know that this condition was ending.
	eserver.org /fiction/sister-carrie.txt (23854 words)

	Salon \| Classics Book Group
		BOOK GROUP ON or many reasons, "Sister Carrie" was a big book to us English majors who studied it in the Modern American Novel course 30 years ago at the University of Minnesota.
		Published in 1900, "Sister Carrie" stood at the gateway to our century, the opening salvo in the struggle of American fiction writers to portray the life of our time honestly, over the harassment of prudes and philistines.
		"Sister Carrie," our professor told us, had been bowdlerized by the author's wife (much as Mark Twain's wife had taken a blue pencil to "Huckleberry Finn") and then was suppressed by its own publisher, Doubleday, when it appeared, and sold less than 500 copies.
	www.salon.com /feature/1997/10/cov_13keillor.html (880 words)

	From Sister Carrie - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		The 1900 publication of the novel Sister Carrie by American author Theodore Dreiser met with a poor reception due to its perceived vulgarity and loose morals.
		The story of the rise to fame and fortune of a showgirl and her subsequent disillusionment runs counter to the popular “rags-to-riches” stories that idealize the American dream of material success.
		Carrie and Hurstwood move to New York City, where Hurstwood fails in business and commits suicide while Carrie rises to the heights of fame as a stage performer.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_761593721/From_Sister_Carrie.html (164 words)

	Amazon.com: Sister Carrie: Books: Theodore Dreiser,E.L. Doctorow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Carrie quickly discovers big city life is tough; her sister's home life bores her to death, the work she finds in a shoe factory is pure drudgery, and she doesn't have enough money to buy decent clothes because she has to pay her sister four dollars a week for rent.
		Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser, is, in short, the tale of a small-town country girl's attempts to rise to aristocracy in the cutthroat world of the early 20th century.
		Carrie is seemingly vapid, and, as she struggles to "make it" by letting Drouet take care of her and give her his money, she hardly acknowledges the fact that he has helped pull her out of poverty.
	www.amazon.com /Sister-Carrie-Theodore-Dreiser/dp/0553213741 (3069 words)

	Carrie
		Carrie is based on Theodore Dreiser's classic novel, Sister Carrie, about the rise of a small town girl and the eventual demise of the wealthy man who loves her.
		When Carrie loses her job, she turns to Charlie Drouet, a salesman that she had met on the train, and he offers her his flat while he is away on business.
		Carrie loses her baby and finally leaves George when she believes that he can find solace with his son and his new wife.
	home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/carrie.html (532 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Sister Carrie
		Sister Carrie, published in 1900, stands at the gateway of the new century.
		Sister Carrie sold poorly but was redeemed by writers like Frank Norris and William Dean Howells who saw the novel as a breakthrough in American realism.
		However, the publication battles over Sister Carrie caused Dreiser to become depressed, so much so that his brother sent him to a sanitarium for a short while.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/sistercarrie/about.html (431 words)

	Sister Carrie
		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.
		Carrie knew nothing about Drouet except that he seemed to like her and appeared to have more money than she could ever got her hands on.
		At the end of the novel as Carrie sits in her rocking chair, surrounded by her beautiful gowns and expensive furniture there the sense that she is not happy and never could be.
	chss2.montclair.edu /history/_senior/0000000b.htm (785 words)

	Sister Carrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by embarking on a life of sin rather than by hard work and perseverance.
		This was due to the blurred division line between good and bad in the plot and the fact that, at the end, Carrie is rewarded rather than punished for her immoral life.
		Soon, however, Carrie finds out that working in a sweatshop and living in a squalid and overcrowded apartment is not what she wants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sister_Carrie (550 words)

	Ouzgane - Dreiser and Sister Carrie
		Despite its title, Sister Carrie is not a study of a family; indeed, the story opens as Carrie Meeber is leaving home to seek her fortune in Chicago, thus severing "the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home" (3).
		Because Carrie is under the sway of mimetic desire, she considers herself insignificant whenever she encounters people who seem to her to be superior models, comparing herself to them and repeatedly concluding that they enjoy a self-sufficiency of which she remains deprived.
		The desirous Carrie was whispered to concerning her possibilities" (321), and when the two women go for a walk, Carrie feels once again the sense of her own insignificance because "this woman pained her by contrast.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /ap1001/carrie.htm (7518 words)

	Sister Carrie XLIV
		Doing her simple part, Carrie gradually realised the meaning of the applause which was for her, and it was sweet.
		Carrie was about to interrupt, but he gave her no chance.
		Such of these letters as came while Carrie was still in the Seventeenth Street place were read with more interest--though never delight--than those which arrived after she was installed in her luxurious quarters at the Wellington.
	www.fiction.us /dreiser/sister/c44.html (2590 words)

	sceti > Theodore Dreiser Web Source > Sister Carrie
		He sets the plot in motion by tracing the migration of "Sister" Carrie, a young woman whose attachment to her family is faint, from her small town home to the city of Chicago.
		Carrie, to the contrary, may be unfulfilled or lonely at the novel's end, but she is very much alive and eminently successful in the eyes of the world.
		Carrie is not simply rebelling against her husband but more significantly against the role that women were traditionally supposed to follow.
	sceti.library.upenn.edu /dreiser/scpubhist.cfm (4992 words)

	Amazon.fr : Sister Carrie: Livres: Dreiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sister Carrie tells the story of a rudderless but pretty small-town girl who comes to the big city filled with vague ambitions.
		Sister Carrie was the first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement in its grittily factual presentation of the vagaries of urban life and in its ingenuous heroine, who goes unpunished for her transgressions against conventional sexual morality.
		Sister Carrie is a work of pivotal importance in American literature, and it became a model for subsequent American writers of realism.
	www.amazon.fr /Sister-Carrie-Dreiser/dp/0140390022 (758 words)

	Sister Carrie: Dreiser's Reversal Of Male/Female Roles
		The novel, "Sister Carrie" seems to be the platform from which Dreiser explores his unconventional views of the genders.
		In the world of Sister Carrie, it would seem that the role of women as trusting, caring creatures, and men as scheming victimizers is reversed; it is Carrie that uses the men around her to get what she wants, and it is those men who are victimized by her.
		In "Sister Carrie", it would seem that Carrie, while outwardly benign, and possibly even deserving of her portrayal as sweet and innocent at the beginning, soon emerges as a ruthless predator in the guise of a helpless woman.
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	Sister Carrie
		She plans to stay with her sister and brother-in-law in the city and find a well-paying job to help her maintain her ideal cosmopolitan lifestyle.
		However, Carrie's experience with the city is not what she had in mind.
		When Carrie first arrives to her sister Minnie's apartment, she is shocked at the living conditions of the family of three.
	www.umich.edu /~eng217/student_projects/worstside/sistercarrie.html (185 words)

	Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser: A Book Review - Literary Fiction
		Sister Carrie was written at the turn of the century and it is a great portrait of American life and ideals at that time.
		It is the story of a young girl named Carrie who leaves her small town to go to Chicago to live with her sister and find work.
		She soon finds that living with her sister and her husband is very boring and that work is hard and dull.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art10955.asp (244 words)

	byGosh.com - Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
		He was dwelling on her attractiveness as he had felt it the evening before, and mingling it with the feeling her presence inspired now.
		Carrie was dwelling in the atmosphere which this man created for her.
		This confused Carrie considerably, for she realised the flood- gates were open.
	www.bygosh.com /carrie/carrie21.htm (1182 words)

	Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
		She was poor, stayed with her sister in Chicago, and couldn't find a good job.
		At one point, when Carrie was bemoaning her fate, she was sad she only had one servant.
		When Carrie was being kept by Droulet, I assumed they weren't having sex, because he hadn't "yet" married her.
	www.dougshaw.com /Reviews/review33.html (992 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sister Carrie: Books: Theodore Dreiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version.
		Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.' The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before.
		The plot of the novel, concerning Carrie and her rise and fall and rise, was less notable, as far as I'm concerned.
	www.amazon.ca /Sister-Carrie-Theodore-Dreiser/dp/1404333029 (1486 words)

	Sister Carrie XXXVI
		The latter wondered at this strange silence, thought Carrie must have left the city, and in the end gave her up as lost.
		Carrie, coming in from another direction, thought she saw Mrs.
		Carrie looked at him a moment, her eyes distending.
	www.fiction.us /dreiser/sister/c36.html (2800 words)

	Dreiser’S “Sister Carrie”
		Carrie, as an ambitious and strong woman embodies the social values of the consumer culture.
		Carrie sells herself for $20, and she is paid far more for her body than she is for her labor.
		Carrie’s fate is determined by her gender, by her environment - cities where she lives - and people, who she is surrounded by.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/18/ehc322.shtml (949 words)

	Amazon.ca: Signet Classics Sister Carrie: Books: Theodore Dreiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of.
		As a result a book that was once a critical document of patterns of behavior of some of the author's contemporaries has become, for better or worse, an important historical chronical of the dangers of selfishness and uninhibited personal ambition.
		She makes her own life, starts out poor and living with her sister to becoming a succesful Broadway star while her husband in NY ends poor and eventually commits suicide.
	www.amazon.ca /Signet-Classics-Sister-Theodore-Dreiser/dp/0451527607 (1430 words)

	Sister Carrie
		Hurstwood, who has supported Carrie, commits suicide after Carrie has dropped him, and she never learns of his death—not that she would have cared.
		Carrie’s acting talent is connected to her great skill at mimicking people and behavior she sees
		Carrie is a cold and basically unlikable person who has few real emotions (once when she discovers H has not told her she was married)
	cla.calpoly.edu:16080 /~rsimon/Hum410/CarriePrice.htm (1219 words)

	Sister Carrie
		Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser published in 1900, tells the story of young Carrie Meeber, who comes to Chicago from rural Wisconsin.
		Carrie finds work in a shoe factory and boards with her working-class sister and brother-in-law.
		When Hurstwood's wife learns of the affair and throws him out, he steals $10,000 from his employer and tricks Carrie into fleeing with him to New York.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1471.html (129 words)

	Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
		It was thus that the little theatre resounded to a babble of successful voices, the creak of fine clothes, the commonplace of good-nature, and all largely because of this man's bidding.
		Drouet and Hurstwood saw at a glance that Carrie was not among them, and went on talking in a whisper.
		Carrie was standing in the wings, weakly waiting her next cue, all the snap and nerve gone out of her.
	www.4literature.net /Theodore_Dreiser/Sister_Carrie/46.html (1036 words)

	Salon Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With the publication of "Sister Carrie" in 1900, Dreiser became the first American author to step into the 20th century, rejecting the cumbersome Victorian morality for what was considered to be a shocking new form of descriptive realism.
		With editing help from Henry and "Jug," Dreiser wrote what is now considered one of his finest novels, Sister Carrie.
		In later years, Dreiser finally repeated the triumph of "Sister Carrie" with another monumental novel, "An American Tragedy." Whether his characters were prostitutes or an entrepreneurs, Dreiser remained dedicated to portraying their lives as realistically as possible.
	www.salon.com /promo/1997/10/13classic_dreiser.html (446 words)

	American Writers: Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
		She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth.
		"I don't know," said Carrie vaguely—a flash vision of the possibility of her not securing employment rising in her mind.
		"Why, Sister Carrie!" she began, and there was a perfunctory embrace of welcome.
	www.americanwriters.org /works/first_dreiser.asp (2783 words)

	SparkNotes: Sister Carrie: Questions for Study
		Consider Carrie's relationship with Drouet, Carrie's fascination with the theater, and the role of masculine sexual desire.
		Consider Drouet's relationship with Carrie, Hurstwood's relationship with Carrie, and Julia's reaction to Hurstwood's affair.
		Consider Carrie's skill at imitation and her strong consumer drive, and Hurstwood's failure to perform his role as Julia's husband.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/sistercarrie/study.html (372 words)

	Sister Carrie Summary
		Although Theodore Dreiser--generally considered the foremost writer in the tradition of American literary naturalism--is principally important as a novelist, he made a significant contribution to the development of short fiction.
		Theodore Dreiser's position in American literature is undeniably secure, primarily based on his novels Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
		Sister Carrie(1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by embarking on a life of sin rather than by hard work and perseverance.
	www.bookrags.com /Sister_Carrie (300 words)

	Untitled Document
		Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie created a sensation when first published and still generates much controversy among scholars and general readers alike.
		The Dreier sisters who organized the Women's Trade Union League in the early twentieth century turned to trade unions as a way of improving women's wages and working conditions and thus of allieviating some of the economic and social incentives to prostitution.
		Above is a picture of Mary Miles Minter, one of Carrie's real-life sisters.
	www.assumption.edu /ahc/Carrie.html (343 words)

	Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser - Palm Reader eBook
		Long before she was seduced by the cautious and ordinary man whose life she would unravel with no malice and only intermittent interest, the young Carrie Meeber was seduced by the promise of the city -- its vitality and reckless possibility, the thrill of material luxury, and the spectacle of power and industry.
		Banned on publication for its questionable morals, Sister Carrie is the great American novel of seduction, a masterpiece of insight into appetite and innocence.
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