![]() ![]() Carrie, without a shining quality, with little to say, with almost no initiative, only her second-rate good looks, her first-rate instinct for soft places, her genius for fitting into such places when she finds them - in brief, her rudimentary femininity - gets a tremendous grip on the imagination of the reader. Withal, the story is interesting in spite of the commonplace character of the personages and the low plane of the gallery in which they move. There is no attempt to complicate the facts as they are with notions of things as they should be morally, or as they might be sentimentally or aesthetically. To an extraordinary degree the book is a photograph of conditions in the crude larger cities of America and of the people who make these conditions and are made by them. She had beauty of a mild sort, a natural sensibility, a rudimentary intellect, a liking for fine clothes and silk and soft places, the good nature which goes with the lack of passion, and no particular burden of education or conscience. He tells what happens to a farmer’s daughter from Wisconsin who went to Chicago almost as a child, and there to seek her level in the world. Except for his provincial avoidance of simple and perfectly understandable phrases, Mr. Dodge & Co., and deserves to be received as a new book, for it did not get a chance for recognition when it first appeared. Theodore Dreiser’s frankly realistic story called “Sister Carrie,” originally published seven years ago, is now republished by Messrs. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser | Review first published May 25, 1907 ![]()
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