Sister Carrie

"Out for a little stroll, are you, this evening?"
Carrie looked at him in amazement, and then summoned sufficient
thought to reply: "Why, I don't know you," backing away as she did so.
"Oh, that don't matter," said the other affably.
She bandied no more words with him, but hurried away, reaching her
own door quite out of breath. There was something in the man's look
which frightened her.

Look at that a woman out for a walk and a creepy man approaches her.

I always loved Sister Carrie because it mirrored America's growth in economy and change from agricultural stories to the city. This is one of the first country girl in the big apple kind of tales and I find it fascinating how promiscuous Carrie, or any women, in a novel of its time is portrayed.

Dreiser shows us a different type of woman, i mean she's pretty out there . Carrie always reminded me of Daisy Miller. This short story was a cautionary tale. Women were not supposed to promiscuous and if they were, hey they died. But here we have Carrie succeeding in the end...well monetarily. But hey that's a huge step up from dying from "roman fever."