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- W2328681433 abstract "Although readers have frequently reacted to the coldness and materialism of Dreiser's finally pathetic heroine in Sister Carrie, it is essential to recognize that this viewpoint is not at all that of her creator. For Dreiser's own appraisal is heavily biased in her favor. Like the early Hurstwood he seems in many ways infatuated with his heroine. His uncritical idealization of Carrie, as evidenced by passage after passage of favorable, sympathetic, or frankly apologetic commentary, in fact obscures the innermost meaning of her interminable longing-central to her character and dramatized throughout the narrative. Understandably most readers have remained oblivious to this meaning since, as the novel abundantly illustrates, Dreiser himself could not apprehend what he had delineated in his portrayal of Carrie's lonely fate. The thesis of this study is that Carrie's longing is shown by Dreiser (though never clearly understood by him) to be a longing for love and emotional relatedness. Such a longing, however, can never know fulfillment because, on one level, Carrie is depicted as deficient in the capacity to love and, on another, far more essential level, her creator (a man at once sterile and promiscuous-and who could actually describe love as merely an intellectual sublimation of lust') was incapable of appreciating either the nature or possibilities of human intimacy. Finally, Carrie's yearning could be interpreted by the author only nostalgically, as one devoid of real objects and therefore eternal. For Dreiser, at the same time that he could conceive of human satisfaction solely in terms of worldly success, could also see that such success did not lead to fulfillment. And the fact that the definition of love implicit in the novel is totally despiritualized obliquely suggests that the" @default.
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- W2328681433 title "Sister Carrie and the Hidden Longing for Love: Sublimation or Subterfuge?" @default.
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