sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a simple tale of a young, pretty eighteen year old girl Caroline Meeber also know as Carrie. When Carrie got on the train from Columbia City to Chicago she had only few cheap items in her trunk and her sister’s address on a piece of paper. Being only eighteen she was still "full of the illusions of ignorance and youth"(Dreiser, 7). She was both afraid of the things …

…could be. She is alone among many friend and admirers. Although she changed her economic status by earning more and more, she could never change her social standing. She was born poor, grew up without education and privileges of wealth and that could never be overlooked in the proper society of the Victorian age. Carrie could never accomplish a position of a Victorian woman with all the trimmings implied: wealth, education, family background and values.