...opening I have already cited, Dreiser introduces the theme of the role of the city in Carrie's life: When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning...

...opening I have already cited, Dreiser introduces the theme of the role of the city in Carrie's life: When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning...

...structural impossibility of equilibrium. We are told on the very first page of the novel, for example, that "when a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an I7Julian Markels, "Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience," in Dreiser, Sister Carrie,...

...given the first of those general historical or philosophical essays that recur throughout the novel: When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. (I)12 No one could imagine...

...characters, afewyearsyounger than Dreiser's Caroline Meeber, who entered Chicago in the summer of 1889: When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse... Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman....

...reputation of the city when he explains by way of general maxim that when a girl leaves home she either "falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she...assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse."13 Drouet's disembodied voice in her ear proves this maxim; he is the first tempter — in Kaplan's...

...is invoked at the outset when we read that Carrie's trip to Chicago opens her to two possible fates: "Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better,...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, . . . there is no possibility" (p. 1). But Carrie's adventure combines...

...passage ? 99taken? 2.Whom does the first word "He" refer to? 3.Who is the author of this novel? Passage 9 When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the cir cumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning...

...metropolis (Chicago in this case) and the authorial moral warning that accompanies it: 'When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility' (SC 1). Yet this comment...

...mysterious new world of rakes and temptations, and he lays out her prospects in classically polarized terms: "When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does...cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse" (1).8 Yet despite the warning, Carrie's story does not exactly conform to either of these options,...