Sister Carrie

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Summary: Great for Contemporary Readers
Review: A twisted novel with the usual great writing Theodore Dreiser presents. I found this book quite simple in text, but emotionally difficult to grasp the idea of "love" and "affairs". The typical Daniel Steel fan just might like to try this turn-of-the-century novel.

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Summary: A personal Favorite Classic of mine
Review: A nice blunt written book, very unusual for an early 1900's novel, yet interesting story I must admit. I never really liked this author, but this book has changed much of that statement. Sister Carrie is a rich and entertaining twisted tragic novel. I reccommend it but what I just don't understand is why this novel was called "SISTER" carrie. Oh well, maybe only the author knowns.

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Summary: I enjoyed reading and analyzing this novel and recomend it.
Review: I found this novel very intriguing and moving. The symbols and representations are very analytical. "Sister Carrie" causes one to think twice about oneself, and to reconsider one's own definition of true happiness and success. It shows one how society can influence one to think in the manner in which one does. The characters face good times and bad times and experience true tests of strength and survival. The results are both well developed and interesting to discover. It is difficult to put the book down. When reading this novel one must understand the sybolism and look deep into the context to acquire the meanings of it. Another interesting fact about this novel is that Theodore Dreiser actually wrote the novel in the year 1900. I am a junior in high school and I strongly recomend the reading of this novel to anyone.

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Summary: Nice Twists
Review: An excellent story of life in Chicago and New York circa 1900. Carrie is a very interesting, if sometimes unsympathetic, character.

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Summary: Lovely ::sniff::
Review: I just completed reading Sister Carrie, and at the very last pages I was constantly trying to wipe the sleep out of my eyes!

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Summary: Clash of Societies: low and high
Review: The rise of a poor pretty female to a rich, famous and beloved actress. The fall of a wealthy, handsome man into the streets of beggary and poverty. Upon these two character's meeting, each will trade up their own lives, for the other's life, without knowing it. The destruction of a man, and power of a woman.

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Summary: Rise of Poor Woman, Fall of wealthy Male
Review: The beauty of Carrie, a poor beauty, going out into the world to make a living. She meets a wealthy and interesting character on her train ride, and will greet him again for help and love. Dreiser's SISTER CARRIE is a great turn for American literature, the true tragity of sucide from being poor, and above all...love.

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Summary: Living the Grand Lavish Life
Review: A strikingly clear stark white view into the world Theodore Dreiser has created of a young poor beauty who over comes great odds into reknown fame and lavish wishes and posessions...well...that is all posessions...but lover, whom turns from a wealthy snob banker into a poverty stricken old hag.

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Summary: Just Lovely
Review: A quick paced story of a young woman's insight of being dumped in a big city, left to search for a life on her own. Sister Carrie has to be one of the greatest literature pieces ever created in that one decade. My personal favorite tragic pessimitic fictional classic. Just lovely.

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Summary: A decent novel with an uninteresting, foolish main character
Review: I don't think I got all the way through Sister Carrie, but I do recall thinking that Carrie is an amorphous idiot with no real voice of her own and no opinions. She is completely inexpressive, hence we never really get to know her -- to understand her motivations. Perhaps this is Dreiser's intention -- indeed, Carrie's lack of strength is likely the main reason for her downfall. I wouldn't know -- her character was so aggravating, with her wishy-washy, inarticulate ways, that the book did not make a truly lasting impression on me. Not bad, though, if you have more patience and more time than I did.