Having learned Sister Carrie in my respectabale professor Mr Liu ,I have a strong desire to write something about my understanding of Dreiser’s masterpiece. It is evident that the novel is not a love story though it contains a great numble of descriptions about the characters' sextual pleasure.Thorough analysis of the story it is obvious it perceives a material world in an consuming angle.At the beging, the heroin's appeareance with a fake leather bag,fashionable but poor quality.A vanity girl is portrayed. Besides, the first desire when she receives her salary in the shoe factory ,she thinks only to buy beautiful clothes.Also, she is fanscinated by Drouet and Hurstwood just because they dress smartly and elegantly.Moreover, when she deserts Hurstwood Carrie complains that the slim salary is not afford her clothes,so she couldnot bear the responsibility to support two.Juding from the details we can see that in the world of Sister Carrie clothes construct her real world rather than love. What is love?The tool to make money and satify her physical enjoyment.Furthermore,in the novel,everyone is consuming his goods. Drouet is a travelling salesman, he is wandering around the world to sell his goods at the same time seek the sweetheat to brandish his ability.Hurswood,is also a saleman.In the beginning he is a manager in the sallon,sells sevice to the rich people.Although he belongs to up class, gradually he drops down and drowned by the complicate society,where New York does not show her sympathy the wick,he stands for the old ,so he is incapable in the vigorous city like NY,he has no talent to become a breadwinner.Then to Carrie,she is successful just due to her performance.But playing on the stage is also a kind of selling goods, her beauty, youth, passion,enthusiam and whatover.To her, she is a sellor,and the audiences are buyer;they pay and she performs.In this sense,Carrie willnot rank to a lasting successful businesswoman as one day she will becomes older and loses her attraction to the customers,even will be rejected by them .In the ending of the chapter she is sitting in her rocking chair,depreesed and thoughful may symbolize the miserable life in future.The above mentioned are my surficial understanding of the novel, the expressions are very poor ,so I hope friends will give some reasonable advice and disply your own distinct opinions .Let us share information together.