Even worse, Dreiser made no moral judgements on his characters' actions. In addition to the book's theme of sexual impropriety, the public disliked the fact that Theodore Dreiser presented a side of life that proper Americans did not care to acknowledge. After the Doubleday printers typeset the book one of the partners' wives read it and so strongly opposed its sexual nature that the publisher produced only a few editions. Harpers refused the first copy, and the book went to Frank Doubleday.
In fact, it was so controversial, it almost missed being printed at all. Sister Carrie shocked the public when Doubleday, Page and Company published it in 1900.
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