Book Sister Carrie An American Jennie Gerhardt Cloud Atlas

Tragedy
Author Theodore Dreiser Theodore Dreiser Theodore Dreiser David Mitch

Synopsis Chicago, Kansas City, Columbus, Ohio through the

New York City, Lycurgus, Cleveland, Pacific in th
1900 the 20th century Chicago, nineteenth
1911 century and
ending in a
primitive Ha
Symbols rocking chair, train colors: red and the native city, letters, book
black, hotel illness of her films
sister, grey color
Characters Carrie Meeber - Clyde Griffiths- Jennie Adam Ewin
the protagonist, the protagonist Gerhardt, the Robert
Carrie is a young (flat pretending to protagonist Frobisher
girl of eighteen be round) Senator Brander Luisa Rey
(round) Samuel Griffiths Lester Kane Vyvyan Ay
Charles H. Drouet Roberta Alden (protagonis
George W. Sondra Finchley
Hurstwood
Point of Third person Third person Third person First person
view omniscient omniscient omniscient narration

Themes Unfulfilled dreams Class Structure, Migration, class Reincarnatio

and desires, identity, ethics and division karma, self-
wealth, ethics and morals destruction o
morals humanity in
future
Principle of Incomplete Analogy and Analogy and Principle of
text Representation contrast contrast Recurrence
organization
Quotes “People in general “There was “It is an “My life am
attach too much nowhere to go but exceptional thing to no more t
importance to everywhere, so just to find beauty, one drop in
words. They are keep on rolling youth, limitless oce
under the illusion under the stars.” compatibility, Yet what is
that talking effects intelligence, your ocean, but a
great results. As a own point of view multitude of
matter of fact, “This is the story —softened and drops?”
words are, as a of America. charmingly
rule, the shallowest Everybody's doing emotionalized— “Travel far
portion of all the what they think in another.” enough, you
argument. They they're supposed to yourself.”
but dimly represent do.” “If you're with
the great surging someone you “Truth is sin
feelings and “Things are so don't exactly trust Its 'versions
desires which lie hard to figure out then you have to mistruths.”
behind. When the when you live watch yourself
distraction of the from day to day in and that's the
tongue is removed, this feverish and hardest thing for
the heart listens.” silly world.” an actor not to do,
and not listen to
“How true it is yourself as you're
that words are but talking.”
the vague shadows
of the volumes we
mean. Little
audible links, they
are, chaining
together great
inaudible feelings
and purposes.”