![]() The main personage of the novel, Carrie Meeber, having become of age moves to Chicago from a small backward town of Columbia City. In his novel the American journalist (it was this very position that Dreiser began his literary activity from) raised a problem which was classical for the 90-ies of the XIX century in the USA – the problem of realization of ‘the American dream’. In England “Sister Carrie” was accepted more favourably after that, in 1907, it was republished in the USA and enjoyed first local and then global appreciation. In America it was published in an edition of one thousand copies. ![]() “Sister Carrie” was rejected as it was considered immoral and discrepant to traditional American values. At first, it did not receive any warm welcome with the public and the critics. Theodore Dreiser’s first novel came out in 1900. ![]()
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