... is the time period in which the novel was written. During his childhood, the nation emphasized that anyone could become rich in this great land of opportunity. Dreiser felt these Gilded Age misconceptions. His novel reflects both the difficulties and possibilities presented by the rapid expansions of American commerce at the end of the nineteenth century (Moss 329). When Sister Carrie was ... ...

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