What is the main content of the book Sister Carrie?

Sister Carrie describes the story of a rural girl Carrie who comes to Chicago to seek happiness. In order to get rid of poverty and sell her virginity, she lived with a salesman and a hotel manager, and then became an actress with her beauty and voice.

Sister Carrie is a novel by American realistic writer Dreiser, and it is a companion piece of Jenny Girl. Theodore dreiser is an American novelist. I have been engaged in journalism for most of my life. I traveled all over Chicago, Pittsburgh, new york and other big cities, extensively and deeply observed and understood the society, and accumulated rich materials for future literary creation.

Writers represented by Carrie profoundly exposed the cruelty of American capitalist system to the poor and the corrosiveness of bourgeois lifestyle to the petty bourgeoisie.

Sister Carrie broke the conservative and elegant tradition of Victorian era in the field of novels, and opened up a new world leading to loyalty, boldness and passion for life, thus bringing a revolution to the American literary world at that time and being unique in the history of American literature.

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/kloc-in the autumn of 0/899, at the urging of his good friend Arthur Henry, Dreiser began to write Sister Carrie. The material of the novel mainly comes from his understanding and accumulation of city life at that time when he was a reporter for a long time, as well as his own life experiences in Chicago and new york and the enlightenment gained from reading a lot of works by Balzac, Hardy, Spencer and others. The life experience of childhood and the hardships of family members are also one of the main sources of his creation.

The most important episode in Sister Carrie is that Hurstwood steals money from the hotel, lures Carrie onto the train and starts eloping. The prototype of this plot is actually the life experience of Dreiser's sister Emma. At that time, the cashier of a hotel once stole $3,500 from the store, eloped with Emma to Montreal, and then moved to new york. 1900 In March, Dreiser finished the first draft of Sister Carrie.

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