Sister carrie pages6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her journey to self-realization is chronicled in her journals and the jottings of her friends. Questioned by a curiously detached narrator, Carrie describes a world of fantasies, delusions and ego trips peopled by characters like Queenie, Zenobia, Bro (the prime minister of the count of Nogs), Valmouth and Englebert Humpherifyoucan. Both protagonist and author play with language, taking the placid cliches of everyday life and shocking them into audacious, often bawdy images. Written in gaudy postmodern prose that bears absolutely no resemblance to Theodore Dreiser's magisterial naturalism, this often hilarious first novel emulates its famous predecessor only in being an account of Carrie Meeber's experiences after she runs away from home (this time in Miami) to discover her own identity in Chicago. ![]()
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