In late 1889, dissatisfied with life in Columbia City, Wisconsin, 18-year-old Caroline Meeber, "Sister Carrie" to her family, takes the train to Chicago, to live with her older sister Minnie and Minnie's husband.
It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels". She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous actress. Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream.
A kinetoscope film of turn-of-the-century Chicago, the initial setting of Sister Carrie
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