One day in August 1889 eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber from Columbia City, Wisconsin-“Sister Carrie as she was half affectionately termed by her family”-boarded a train for Chicago that was to take her (and the surprisingly but never dependably gifted newspaper reporter from Terre Haute who had just put her into his first novel) into world literature. Ford Madox Ford on Dreiser: Portraits From Life Damn it all, it is fun to see that poor old language, that vehicle for conveying moderated thoughts, having the guts kicked out of it, like a deflated football, over all the fields of the boundless Middle West.
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