Essay Archive - Sister Carrie: Dreiser's Reversal of Male/Female Roles
Sister Carrie: Dreiser's Reversal of Male/Female Roles
The novel Sister Carrie seems to be the platform from which Dreiser
explores his unconventional views of the genders. In the world of Sister
Carrie, it would seem that the role of women as trusting, caring creatures,
and men as scheming victimizers is reversed; it is Carrie that uses the men
around her to get what she wants, and it is those men who are victimized by
her. Thus Dreiser uses this novel as a means of questioning the popular
notions of gender and the role that it plays in modern society.
In Sister Carrie, it w....
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