Rocking Chair
Carrie and Hurstwood totally love to rock out… in their rocking chairs. We might even say that we see them doing this more frequently than anything else they do in the novel. The ubiquitous rocki...
Animal and Insect Imagery
In his good clothes and fine health [Drouet] was an unthinking moth of the lamp. (7.3) [The men] looked at [the door] as dumb brutes look, as dogs paw and whine and study the knob. They shifted and...
Water Imagery
The image of water in Sister Carrie is almost always a signal of trouble, usually of the financial sort. Because water has the ability to completely overpower humans (think of storms, shipwrecks),...