Indeed, Harper Brothers, the first publisher to see the book, rejected it by saying it was not, "sufficiently delicate to depict without offense to the reader the continued illicit relations of the heroine". The book was initially rejected by many publishers on the grounds that is was "immoral". The story as told by Dreiser, about Carrie Meeber who becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman, is unapologetically told and created a scandal with its moral transgressions.
In 1883 she ran away to Toronto, Canada with a married man who had stolen money from his employer. Theodore Dreiser based his first novel on the life of his sister Emma. Sister Carrie, published in 1900, stands at the gateway of the new century.
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