This movie clearly missed the point of Dreiser's novel which is that success doesn't always lead to happiness. So Dreiser's novel ends with the description of Carrie's unhappiness while in the movie you don't get the intention she was an unhappy person. Here in the movie she seems also more concerned for Hurstwood's financial problems after she left him while in the novel she asked him what his problems are but he refused any help and walked away without giving her the chance to help him. So the novel is far more depressing (and also better!) than this average movie which is otherwise good except from the last part but the book describes Hurstwood's tragic ending in a poverty house where he commits suicide in brutal honesty which you can't say of this movie. It's like a "softer" version of the book.
Review of Carrie
