Reading

1. Skim the extract from the book by Theodore Dreiser “Sister Carrie” to get the general idea.

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser in which characters search for their own “American Dreams”– the ones offered by a growing and prosperous democratic country.

Carrie, a poor country girl, arrives in Chicago, filled with the expectations of acquiring the finer things in life. She imagines the elegant clothes she will wear, the exciting places to which she will go, and the fashionable people with whom she will associate, thinking that everyone who lives beyond the boundaries of her Midwestern state has achieved that higher status. Soon she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.

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