In five pages this novel analysis includes character, plot, symbolism, and thematic consideration. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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out with his first novel, Sister Carrie. And avid believer in naturalism, Dreisers book depicts the life of a young working girl, her successes in life and the ultimate demise
and decline. His work in Sister Carrie, however, would eventually be recognized by the world as one of those works that should be afforded its place with the rest of
the novels which call themselves classics. A good deal of Dreisers works seem to focus on the idea of poverty and what it does to a persons inner landscapes.
Forced to sometimes do those things which one would not do under other circumstances, he places his characters in situations from which they have no choice than to follow a
seemingly predetermined course. The main character is this book, however, is one that is slightly closer to home for the author. He based this book on the life of his
sister, Emma who ran off with a married man who had embezzled funds from his employer(Keilor). The very idea of making a heroine out of a very amoral character had
the publishers in the 1900s horrified, not to mention the Victorian Era mindset. The world was just not ready for Dreiser, yet. What they found so grossly unsettling
was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her life. Dreiser wrote this book to show
that a very good story could be full of the reality of what people would think and say, rather than present an idealized version of a hero or heroine. He
wanted the world to wake up from its Victorian cookie-cutter mindset and embrace reality. Dreiser, in this respect then, was a realist. He, and other like him, did not believe