Theodore dreiser's sister carrie

It is as valid a part of his art as his creation of characters and selection of detail. The following sentences from Sister Carrie are examples of Dreiser's writing style at its worst: "The, to Carrie, very important theatrical performance was to take place at the Avery on conditions which were to make it more noteworthy than was at first anticipated" "They had young men of the kind whom she, since her experience with Drouet, felt above, who took them out."ĭreiser's style is, nevertheless, important to the totality of his work. His wordiness and repetitions are at times unbearable he has no feeling for words, no sense of diction, no ear for euphony. Even Dreiser's sincerest admirers admit that his style is atrocious, his sentences chaotic, his grammar and syntax faulty.

The adjective "elephantine" has been reserved by critics exclusively to describe the style of Dreiser, "the world's worst great writer." It is generally awkward and ponderous it lacks precision and it moves with a lumbering gait.