Sister Carrie (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Theodore Dreiser
- First Published: 1900
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: 1889
- Setting: Chicago and New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Nineteenth century, New York City, Chicago, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Adultery, City life, Divorce, Working class, Theft, Work or workers, Naivete, Innocence
- Locales: New York, NY, Chicago, IL
Characters Discussed
Caroline Meeber, called Sister Carrie, a young Midwestern girl who rises from her small-town origins to success as an actress. Her story illustrates one part of the author’s division of humankind between the Intellectual and the Emotional. Members of the latter division he calls “harps in the wind,” hopelessly seeking to satisfy an inexplicable yearning for beauty, accomplishment, and the good life. Caroline Meeber belongs to this second group, which performs its sad, forsaken quest in the manner of dancers after a flame. Although Carrie is not...
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