~New Essays on Sister Carrie, edited by Donald Pizer, Cambridge University Press, 1991. A collection of late 20th-century essays on Sister Carrie, including a useful bibliography. Sister Carrie: The City, the Self, and the Modes of Narrative Discourse By Richard Lehan, University of California Edited by Donald Pizer Book: New essays on, While Dreiser had written for years as a journalist and had recently completed and sold four short stories, he doubted whether he had the talent to write a novel. . He sat down to write to my sister. Read this book, reports, essays and research papers. Sister Carrie. The Fall of Carrie and Hurstwood Sister Carrie, written by Theodore Dreiser, is the story of Carrie, who comes to Chicago to somehow earn the money she always dreamed of having. In search of material goods and success, she