The American Dream that Carrie experienced is guided by the philosophy of Determinism that characterized the era. The latter determined her faith and actions, and detached her from her morals and traditions in favor of money and fame.

Dreiser, known as the author of woman, explores in this novel the issue of woman within the urban environment, by presenting Carrie as being modern, with materialistic dreams. The present article deals with American woman’s experience of the American Dream in the turn of the twentieth century through the analysis of the dreams of the main character in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (1900). Very truly yours, Theodore Dreiser Editor.:To download the pdf version of the research papers, please visit the following link

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I am the editor-in-chief of the three publications, The Delineator, The Designer and The New Idea which have a combined circulation of 1,800,000. “My dear Sir: Your name has been suggested to me as that of some one who is interested in the sociological progress of America, and particularly in matters which concerns the development and well-being of the on-coming generation of Americans. Uncommon Typed Letter Signed, “Theodore Dreiser,” on The Delineator letterhead. American naturalist author his first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), is a work of pivotal importance in American literature.

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