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An Analysis of the Character —— Carrie Meeber

Abstract:

Sister Carrie has been called the quintessential modern American novel. Through itscharacters and their story, it illustrates the effects of the changing economic structure

on American culture. My article’s main objective is to analyze how does Dreiser’s Naturalistic style be exposed through the character Carrie Meeber in Sister Carrie.

Sister Carrie tells the story of two characters: Carrie Meeber, an ordinary girl who risesfrom a low-paid wage earner to a high-paid actress, and George Hurstwood, a member of the upper middle class who falls fromhis comfortable lifestyle to a life on the streets. Neither Carrie nor Hurstwood earn theirfates through virtue or vice, but rather through random circumstance. Their successesand failures have no moral value; this stance marks Sister Carrie as a departure from theconventional literature of the period.

Dreiser touches upon a wide range of themes and experiences in Sister Carrie, fromgrinding poverty to upper-middle class comfort. The novel dwells on the moment as it is experienced; the charactersare plunged into the narrative without the reader being told much, if any, of theirhistories. Their identities are constantly subject to change, reflecting the modernAmerican experience that had been ushered in by the developing capitalist economy.

In the process of this development, thousands of rural Americans rushed to the citiesto find jobs and to build themselves new lives and identities. Sister Carrie captures the excitement of that experience.Keywords:virtue , vice, random circumstance, ambitious, moral, tragic.

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