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        <title><![CDATA[Implicit Metaphors as a form of Imagery:
The new jacket Carrie receives...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Implicit Metaphors as a form of Imagery:
The new jacket Carrie receives as "a gift" could represent the first "trade-off" she makes -  when she decides to compromise her sexuality to receive certain material favours. It is the beginning of a long slide downhill and the point of no return (from a moral standpoint, that is).
Another very graphic symbol is the rocking chair Carrie frequently retreats to. It is a symbol of movement without real...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does the author of 'Sister Carrie' use literary elements to portray...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does the author of 'Sister Carrie' use literary elements to portray the political and social issues?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:43:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does consumerism, materialism, and the decay of the American dream...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does consumerism, materialism, and the decay of the American dream relate to Sister Carrie?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:07:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dreiser is often consiered to be a determinist.  He believed that we...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dreiser is often consiered to be a determinist.  He believed that we were not free agents, but that we were driven by &quot;chemisms.&quot;  Although he never specifies exactly what these are, we know that they are forces that drive us, almost in spite of ourselves, in certain directions. He compares us to a moth drawn irresistably to the flame or to a waife in the breeze. In &quot;Sister Carrie&quot; one of these is our attractions is to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:04:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the themes and symbols in the Sister Carrie novel?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the themes and symbols in the Sister Carrie novel?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:26:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dreiser maintains a nonchalent, detached tone throughout the novel. This...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dreiser maintains a nonchalent, detached tone throughout the novel. This is done to banalize the protagonist's compromising choices to 'assure her place' in urban society as well as to dedramatize Hurstwood's suicide. The absence of moral judgement also corresponds to the anonymity and alienation of 'big city' living:Hurstwood’s destitution and matter-of-fact death seem less melodramatic than the tacked on apostrophe sentimentalizing Carrie...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:11:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the mood in &quot;Sister Carrie&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the mood in &quot;Sister Carrie&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:24:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The names for Carrie are exactly correct.  However, I don't think that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The names for Carrie are exactly correct.  However, I don't think that Carrie &quot;let other people, especially men&quot; make decisions for her. It's even questionable about whether anyone &quot;makes&quot; any decisions for themselves in the novel.  Carrie and Drouet are both enamoured of much the same things:  clothes, money, the trappings of &quot;the good life.&quot;  Carrie is OK with Drouet until someone better comes along in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:40:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Carrie's full name is Caroline Meeber. Sister Carrie is a nickname her...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Carrie's full name is Caroline Meeber. Sister Carrie is a nickname her family gave her.Carrie lets other people, especially men, make decisions for her. She has an affair with traveling salesman Charles Drouet when she is very young. She leaves Drouet for his friend George Hurstwood. When Hurstwood's wife finds out about the affair, she starts divorce proceedings and threatens to take every penny from him. Carrie and Hurstwood run off...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:58:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What names is Carrie known by in &quot;Sister Carrie&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What names is Carrie known by in &quot;Sister Carrie&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:21:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes, they did.  The word Dreiser uses is &quot;yield&quot; which means...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes, they did.  The word Dreiser uses is &quot;yield&quot; which means that she submitted.  What makes Carrie's sexual desire unique,  as Sybil B. Weir argues in her article, &quot;The Image of Women in Dreiser's Fiction,&quot; is that Dreiser &quot;accept(s) the fact that women have erotic desires and to assert their sexual careers does not automatically invalidate their moral natures.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:03:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Sister Carrie, did Carrie and Drouet have sex?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Sister Carrie, did Carrie and Drouet have sex?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:53:48 PST</pubDate>
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