Sister Carrie (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Theodore Dreiser
- First Published: 1900
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: 1889
- 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
Places Discussed
*Chicago. Great Midwestern American city for which Caroline Meeber, or Carrie, boards a train as the novel opens. When Carrie arrives in Chicago, she is both nervous and youthfully optimistic about her opportunities in this vibrant new place. In depicting this place, with which he was intimately familiar, Dreiser describes an energetic young city of over 500,000 people, full of opportunity for those lucky enough to find and take advantage of it. He depicts the bustling factory and wholesale districts in which Carrie seeks work, the crowded tenements where her...
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