ticket, a scrap of paper with her sisters address in Van Buren Street, and. small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her. Sister Carrie (1900) was Dreisers first novel, and it reflects the ideas of literary naturalism through its attitude of scientific objectivity toward human. outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a. One of his works, Sister Carrie is taken for the study and it is analysed through the concept of existentialism by adopting textual analysis method. When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total. The theory of existentialism is applied to analyse the work of Dreiser whose writings replicates and criticizes his contemporary American society, especially women. The judgement, the choices, the resultant acts and its consequences are the determining factors since ‘Existence precedes essence’ and social values are disregarded. Not only that, the consequences of the decision making is accepted without regretting, for even if it is a wrong decision. Existentialism states that man exists and in that existence man defines himself and the world in his own subjectivity, and wanders between choice, freedom, and existential angst.
Existentialism is a theory which advocates free existence in the sophisticated society and also individual’s freedom of choice in taking a decision. The purpose of this study is to explore and identify the theory of existentialism in Theodore Dreiser’s first fiction, Sister Carrie.
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