Sister Carrie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Harsh judgments, perhaps, but not as harsh as those delivered to Gatsby, Sister Carrie and, for that matter, Undine Spragg, the Edith Wharton heroine for whom Ms. Nottage’s character is named.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2018
Heartbreaks in high school were softened by Jane Austen’s wit and by the greater tragedies in Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 14, 2015
Theodore Dreiser, considered one of America's great realist novelists for "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy," lived his last years in Los Angeles and is buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2014
Back then Chicago had "developed an image as a cold, capitalistic city where people buy their way to power," a portrait helped along by Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle."
From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 22, 2011
They suggested that the worst thing that could possibly happen to an American was to topple from his perch on the class ladder, as happens to poor Hurstwood in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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