Question

Comment on the imagery in the novel Sister Carrie

Answer 1

Dreiser is often consiered to be a determinist. He believed that we were not free agents, but that we were driven by "chemisms." Although he never specifies exactly what these are, we know that they are forces that drive us, almost in spite of ourselves, in certain directions. He compares us to a moth drawn irresistably to the flame or to a waife in the breeze....