Dreiser Theodore. Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie by
Theodore Dreiser:Sister Carrie is 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. At the time of its first publication, the novel caused a minor scandal and Dreiser had difficulty finding a publisher for it. 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. Although Dreiser's moralizing narrator does assert that, despite the fame and the money she has amassed, Carrie will not be able to achieve peace of mind in her life, the apparent lack of poetic justice - the notion that immorality should pay in the end, even if only up to a point - was a concept the reading public were altogether unused to at the time.About the Author: Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), best known for his novels Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy(1925), was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was also a journalist in Chicago, St. Louis, and New York City.