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Sister Carrie is a social realist novel by Theodore Dreiser. It tells the story of Carrie, a young girl who comes to the city in search of freedom and happiness. The novel profoundly reveals the cruelty of the American capitalist system to the poor people and the corrosion of the bourgeois way of life to the petty bourgeoisie. Taking Carrie as the representative, the author describes the tragic fate of a woman oppressed by society and reveals a cruel social reality. The novel takes Carrie as the protagonist and tells the story of her journey from the countryside to the city in search of happiness. Carrie lives in a rural family, she is not satisfied with this monotonous life, so she decided to go to the city to find freedom and happiness. But when she arrived in Chicago, she found that it was not as good as she imagined. Carrie drifts in the city and meets salesman Drouet.