Happiness in Sister Carrie

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…showed last 75 words of 566 total…settled, possessing all the things she dreamed of. However, when Hurstwood is fired and runs out of money, Carrie, with her increasingly larger and successful role in the theater, looks upon Hurstwood as a burden and leaves him in order to fulfill her destiny as an actress. No later does Carrie realize that her whole life is a mess and that she is not truly happy, but has brought down sadness and loneliness upon herself.