Women throughout history have found ways to fend for themselves because they were constantly being degraded. In novels such as Sister Carrie by Theodore Dresier, and My Antonia by Willa Cather, who overcame many hardships throughout their lives. Carrie Meeber, from Sister Carrie, was a poor girl who went to Chicago from the Mid West. There she found men who gave her money and slaved after her, but she soon discovered a talent from which …showed first 75 words of 798 total…

…showed last 75 words of 798 total…own actress and an opulent women, which bought her items and made her happy. Carrie reached happiness with money, while Antonia reached it with a family. Women have usually hidden in the shadows of men. In such novels as Sister Carrie and My Antonia, the authors have showed us that women are capable of reaching their own happiness. Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1949 Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. Robert Bentley: Massachusetts, 1965