Money and morality in theodore dreiser’s novel " sister carrie" contents

1.2. Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie"
The Great Depression ended Dreiser's prosperity and strengthened his commitment to social causes. He came to reconsider his opposition to communism and wrote the anti-capitalist Tragic America (1931). His only major literary achievement of this decade was the autobiography of childhood and youth, Breaking Dawn (1931), one of the most touching revelations of any great writer. In the mid to late 1930s, his growing social consciousness and interest in science merged into a vague mystical philosophy.
From 1920 he moved with his mistress Helen Richardson from New York to Los Angeles . There he began selling film rights to his first works. In 1942, he began to rewrite the novel The Reserve , begun in 1912. This mission ended in 1944 when he married Helen. (Sarah White Dreiser died in 1942.) One of her last attempts was to join the American Communist Party . Helen helped him fill in most of The Wreck, the long-delayed third volume of the Yerke trilogy , just a few weeks before his death. Both Boulevard and Stoick published after his death (1946 and 1947). A collection of Dreiser 's philosophical reflections , Notes on Life , appeared in 1974 ⁴.
Notable work

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  "Financier"
  
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  "Kerry opa "
  
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  " Kerry Opa "
  
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  "Jenny Gerhardt"
  
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  "The keeper"
  
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  "Titanium"
  
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  " Daho "
  
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  "Stoic"
  

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  Literary Awakening in Chicago
  

Works by Theodor Dreiser

Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie (1900) is an important work in American literature , despite its bad start. It was a beacon for later American writers to approach every subject realistically . Sister Kerry tells the story of a helpless but beautiful little city girl who comes to the big city with vague ambitions. She is used by men and they in turn use her to become a successful Broadway actress, while her fiancé George Hurstwood , who has run off with her, is killed by begging and suicide. " Sister Carrie " is the first masterpiece of the American naturalist movement, skillfully depicting the vagaries of urban life on the basis of clear facts and going unpunished for its crimes against traditional sexual morality . The book's strengths include a thoughtful yet compassionate look at humanity, an unforgettable character composition, and engaging stories. Hurstwood 's emotional breakdown is a very commendable victory for psychological analysis ⁵.
Dreiser's second novel, Jenny Gerhardt (1911), was less successful than Sister Carrie's , due to distrust of her protagonist. Based on Dreiser's memories of his beloved mother, Jenny is presented as a plaster saint that many modern students find difficult to sympathize with. The strengths of the novel are its poignant depiction of social snobs and narrow-minded "believers", as well as deep sympathy for the poor.
Kerry opa(1912) and The Titan (1914) were the first two novels in a trilogy based on the late 19th-century writings of Charles T. Yerkes, an American financier and tractor magnate who played the role of Frank Cowperwood. Although Cowperwood successfully planned to own a monopoly business first in Philadelphia and later in Chicago , the novels focused on the exchange between his immoral business dealings, marriage, and other erotic relationships. " Sister Carrie" and "The Titan" are important examples of business romances, representing the most in-depth and documented exploration of big finance in high-end fiction. Cooperwood, like all of Dreiser's main characters, fails to achieve much of his apparent aspirations. The third novel in the trilogy , "The Stoic" (1947), is devastatingly weakened by Dreiser's declining interest in its protagonist.
Daho (1915) is one of Dreiser's least artistically successful novels, but it is nonetheless integral to understanding his psychology. This book describes her autobiographical heroine's career as an artist and the source of her ultimate realization of her aspirations for the ideal woman.
Dreiser's longest novel, Sister Carrie (1925) , is a complex and compassionate story about the life and death of a young anti-hero named Clyde Griffiths. The novel begins with Clyde's protest , tells the story of his success, and ends with his arrest , trial, and execution for murder. One of the world's most influential critics called the book "the worst novel ever written in the world", but its questionable grammar and style belies the story . Dreiser's confusing rumors about the extent of Clyde's guilt did not deter his scathing accusations of materialism and American striving for success ⁶.
Dreiser's next novel, The Sanctuary ( 1946), is about a Quaker father's fruitless struggle to protect his children from the materialism of modern American life. More intellectually coherent than Dreiser's previous novels, this book also prides itself on its finest prose.