Sister Carrie

He told TMZ: "It's heartbreaking and shocking to me that I was intentionally omitted from attending this important legacy event for my sister, Carrie."

Yet Lewis’s Babbitt is, finally, a man we care about — a character rather than a caricature — one of a small group of American fictional creations who, in the early years of the 20th century, stand in their very different ways as landmarks in the story of the social evolution of our country: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Wharton’s Lily Bart, Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams, with Gatsby on the horizon.

I was as thrilled by it as Mencken said he was upon first reading Dreiser’s colossal “Sister Carrie.”

Theodore Dreiser’s frankly realistic story called “Sister Carrie,” originally published seven years ago, is now republished by Messrs. B.W.

Several months ago, when vaccinations were opened up to all eligible adults, we found out that my husband’s oldest sister, “Carrie,” and her husband “Brad” decided not to get vaccinated.