Sexual contradiction

Sister Carrie is a novel that reveals the contradictions between social reality and human nature deeply. Through Sister Carrie's experience, it shows the social phenomenon of the disparity between rich and poor and moral decay in American metropolises in the early 20th century. Carrie in the novel, a naive small-town girl, with a yearning for a better life, came to the prosperous Chicago, but unfortunately became a victim of money-oriented society. Her life course, from being seduced by Drouet, a suitor, to becoming the mistress of Hurstwood, a hotel manager, in order to pursue a higher material life, is full of chance and inevitability. Carrie's fate is full of chance. In the process of pursuing her dreams, she constantly changes her life style and values, but finally finds that material abundance can not bring spiritual satisfaction.