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leejunki
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In Sister Carrie, did Carrie and Drouet have sex?

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Posted by leejunki on Monday September 24, 2007 at 2:53 AM and tagged with carrie, drouet, sex, sister carrie.

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  1. jamie-wheeler Teacher
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    Yes, they did.  The word Dreiser uses is "yield" which means that she submitted.  What makes Carrie's sexual desire unique,  as Sybil B. Weir argues in her article, "The Image of Women in Dreiser's Fiction," is that Dreiser "accept(s) the fact that women have erotic desires and to assert their sexual careers does not automatically invalidate their moral natures. 

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    http://www.enotes.com/sister-carrie

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    Posted by jamie-wheeler on Tuesday September 25, 2007 at 12:03 PM