On the train she is befriended by Charles H. Carrie is bright but uneducated, easy prey for male wolves. About the end of the 19th century, eighteen-year-old Carrie leaves her small town, Columbia City, Illinois and takes a train to Chicago to find a career she lives with an older married sister. “Sister Carrie” in the novel is Caroline Meeber Dreiser wanted the title to represent anyone’s sister. At the time Dreiser’s intent was social realism, but today’s reader will perceive the novel as historical fiction. The plot of the novel still reads very well. Dreiser was also one of the first American authors to understand the changing relationship between men and women in this country, which permitted women to take advantage of men, not just vice-versa. It still is considered one of the most powerful of American novels because it continues to carry a powerful message about the strengths and weaknesses of the United States, wherein material and social success is often continued to be more important than the path taken to gain that success.
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