tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518910185806021537.post5873274421641095101..comments2023-09-17T21:45:39.709+10:00Comments on Classic Readers: ALIA Retirees: Sister Carrie by Theodore DreiserMyleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00192872572021046374noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518910185806021537.post-53985031490530050572011-01-24T09:18:19.943+11:002011-01-24T09:18:19.943+11:00Hi Oliver,
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I am glad to have read it, though it is almost painful reading at times. The downward spiral of Hurstwood is done magnificently and is deeply moving and convincing. The evocatins of Chicago and New York are vivid and atmospheric.<br /><br />I am not quite sure how I feel about the characterisation of Carrie. She seems curiously emotionless, at least until the last few chapters, when she develops some sense that there is more to life than fine clothes and fine restaurants. She seems never to feel much for Drouet or Hurstwood. Though believing herself married to the latter, she seems to take no interest in his work and to regard his economic problems as his alone to solve. It is interesting that there is never any mention of her contacting her family at home in Wisconsin, or any suggestion of any further contact with her sister (whose household, admittedly, was not too welcoming). Carrie seems never to make any friends: neither Mrs Vance or Lola is really more than an acquaintance. I also wonder if her success is not won with unconvincing ease. She has no training as an actor, she says she cannot sing, but she rises almost effortlessly on the strength of good looks and an innate talent little manifest before the last chapters.<br /><br />Hurstwood, by contrast, is evoked with a power which makes your mention of Dostoyevsky far from inappropriate, Fay. I found myself wondering if Dreiser might not have been a bit of a misogynist. His female characters - Carrie until near the end, Mrs Vance, Hurstwood's wife and daguther - seem to regard wealth and the possession and acquistiion of it as absolutely the whole story of human existence. But admittedly the men are materialistic enough too.<br /><br />Dreiser's style has been described as vulgar and cliche-ridden. Perhaps it is not wise to do do, but I will admit I generally did not find it too bad. Some of the philosophising does, however, seem muddled and pretentious.<br /><br />This is not a novel I will forget easily.<br /><br />John KennedyJohn Kennedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518910185806021537.post-11076180839759824542009-04-29T15:05:00.000+10:002009-04-29T15:05:00.000+10:00I am still reading this, and hope to finish in the...I am still reading this, and hope to finish in the next few days. I am about three quarters through, and from what you say, Faye, it would seem that the most powerful and harrowing parts lie ahead. So does most of Carrie's acting career. At the thre quarter point she seems to the modern mind a curiously passive and detached character, unable or uninterested in reaching out to any other human being. Not a monster of positive evil, certainly, but far from appealing. <br /><br />I am glad I am reading it. As you indicate, Faye, the invocation of Chicage (and indeed of New York) is brilliant. It is amazing that Dreiser took such pains to evoke time and place, given that he was writing only a few years after the period in which the novel is set. It is as if an Australian writer in 2009 lovingly recreated the sights and sounds of Sydney in <br />1990.John Kennedynoreply@blogger.com