She could scarcely toss her head gracefully. In the intuitive graces she was still crude. Books were beyond her interest- knowledge a sealed book. Possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class-two generations removed from the emigrant. Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period. It was, nevertheless, her guiding characteristic. Selfinterest with her was high, but not strong. Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.Ĭaroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman.Ī blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. There was the great city, bound more closely by these very trains which came up daily. To be sure there was always the next station, where one might descend and return.

A gush of tears at her mother’s farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day.Ī pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Sister Carrie PDF Book by Theodore Dreiser Name of Book When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister’s address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. Click here to Download Sister Carrie PDF Book by Theodore Dreiser Language English having PDF Size 4.4 MB and No of Pages 412.

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