 | David E. Shi - Art - 1996 - 410 pages
...Charles Yerkes, Cowperwood follows the same deluded notion of the good life that goaded Carrie Meeber. "We think we are individual, separate, above houses and material objects generally," Dreiser observes, "but there is a subtle connection which makes them reflect us quite as much as we... | |
 | Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 268 pages
...philosophize about the way objects constitute human subjects. "The effect of a house of this character on its owner is unmistakable. We think we are individual,...them reflect us quite as much as we reflect them" (97-98). As a paradigmatic figure from nature (of the sort he repeatedly deploys to naturalize human... | |
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We think we are individual, separate, above houses and material objects generally; but there is a subtle connection which makes them reflect us quite as much as we reflect them. They lend dignity, subtlety, force, each to the other, and what beauty, or... 