Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie 英语专业教学课件
嘉莉妹妹英文简介
文学期末One of my favorite American novel is “Sister Carrie”. I read its Chinese version when I was in middle school. The author of the book is Theodore Dreiser, a famous realistic writer in American literature history. Realism follows the rule of nature “survival of the fittest”. “Sister Carrie” is a representative of realism, which describes a poor countryside girl’s life change after her arrival to Chicago.Carrie was born in a poor family, but she has a dream of happy life. She came to Chicago to get jobs to change her life. Carrie’s sister who has been in Chicago for years does not show much welcome to her sister, which makes Carrie feel lonely and unhappy. Carrie’s life was hard with low wages. After a period of time, she can no longer put up with such king of life. She cohabited with a salesman named Drouet, a young playboy who first meets Carrie in the train to Chicago. Drouet offered Carrie a easier life than before. However, Carrie was soon attracted by his friend, a manger of a hotel named Hurstwood.Hurstwood was also attracted by Carrie, and he cheated Carrie about his marriage. Carrie becomes his lover. However, truth will come to light soon or later. Their relationship is discovered by Hurstwood”s wife and Droute. Hurstwood went to New York with Carrie after the theft of a huge sum of money.。
英语专业必读书（大全5篇）
英语专业必读书（大全5篇）第一篇：英语专业必读书英语专业必读书英语专业建议阅读参考书目(1)英国文学The Canterbury Tales---Geoffery Chaucer 《坎特伯雷故事集》乔叟著 Hamlet----William Shakespeare 《哈姆雷特》莎士比亚著Waiting For Godot----Samuel Beckett《等待戈多》贝克特著Ode to a Nightingale----by John Keats 《夜莺颂》济慈著The Waste Land----by T.S.Eliot《荒原》汤姆斯·斯特·爱略特Lucky Jim-----Kingsley Amis《幸运的吉姆》Pride and Prejudice-----Jane Austen《傲慢与偏见》Jane Eyre-----Chariotte Bronte《简爱》Wuthering Heights-----Emily Bronte《呼啸山庄》Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-----Lewis Carroll《爱丽丝梦游仙境》The Moon and Sixpence;of Human Bondage-----W.Somerest Maugam《月亮和六便士》, 《人性的枷锁》Murder on the Orient Express-----Agatha Christie 《东方快车谋杀案》Robinson Crusoe-----Daniel Defoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》David Copperfield-----Charles Dickens 《大卫科波菲尔》The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-----Sir Arthur C.Doyle 《福尔摩斯探案集》Rebecca-----Daphne Du Maurier《蝴蝶梦》The French Lieutenant’s Woman-----John Fowles《法国中尉的女人》Tess of the D’Urbervilles;Jude The Obscure-----Thomas Hardy《苔丝》，《无名的裘德》Ulysses----James Joyce 《尤利西斯》Tales from Shakespeare-----Charles Lamb 《莎士比亚故事集》Sons and wrence《儿子与情人》Daisy Miller-----Henry James《戴茜·米勒(2)美国文学Walden----by Henry David Thoreau 《瓦尔豋湖》梭罗著Leaves of Grass----by Walt Whitman 《草叶集》惠特曼著Death of a Salesman----by Eugene O’Neill 《推销员之死》尤金·奥尼尔著Theodore Dreiser----Sister Carrie《嘉莉妹妹》, An American Tragedy《美国悲剧》Ralph Ellison----Invisible Man 《隐形人》William Faulkner----Go Down, Moses《去吧，摩西》, The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》F.Scott Fitzgerald----The Great Gatsby 《伟大的盖茨比》Alex Haley----Roots 《根》Nathaniel Hawthorne----The Scarlet Letter《红字》Joseph Heller----Catch-22 《22条军规》Ernest Hemingway----The Sun Also Rises《太阳照常升起》, The Old Man and the Sea《老人与海》Harper lee----To Kill a Mockingbird《杀死一只知更鸟》Jack London----The Call of the Wild 《野性的呼唤》Martin Eden 《马丁·伊登》Margaret Mitchell----Gone with the Wind 《乱世佳人》Toni Morrison----The Bluest Eye 《最蓝的眼睛》Vladimir Nabokov----Lolita 《洛丽塔》J.D.Salinger----The Catcher in the Rye《麦田里的守望者》John Steinbeck----The Grapes of Wrath《愤怒的葡萄》Harriet Beecher Stowe----Uncle Tom's Cabin 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》Norman Mailer----The Naked and the Dead《裸者与死者》William Styron----Sophie's Choice《苏菲的抉择》Mark Twain----The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn，The Prince and the Pauper《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》《王子与贫儿》Alice Walker----The Color Purple《紫色》Edith Wharton----The Age of Innocence 《纯真年代》Louisa May Alcott----Little Women 《小妇人》Henry James----The Portrait of a Lady 《贵妇画像》第二篇：英语专业必读书英语专业必读书英语专业建议阅读参考书目(1)英国文学The Canterbury Tales---Geoffery Chaucer 《坎特伯雷故事集》乔叟著 Hamlet----William Shakespeare 《哈姆雷特》莎士比亚著Waiting For Godot----Samuel Beckett《等待戈多》贝克特著Ode to a Nightingale----by John Keats 《夜莺颂》济慈著The Waste Land----by T.S.Eliot《荒原》汤姆斯·斯特·爱略特Lucky Jim-----Kingsley Amis《幸运的吉姆》Pride and Prejudice-----Jane Austen《傲慢与偏见》Jane Eyre-----Chariotte Bronte《简爱》Wuthering Heights-----Emily Bronte《呼啸山庄》Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-----Lewis Carroll《爱丽丝梦游仙境》The Moon and Sixpence;of Human Bondage-----W.Somerest Maugam《月亮和六便士》, 《人性的枷锁》Murder on the Orient Express-----Agatha Christie 《东方快车谋杀案》Robinson Crusoe-----Daniel Defoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》David Copperfield-----Charles Dickens 《大卫科波菲尔》The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-----Sir Arthur C.Doyle 《福尔摩斯探案集》Rebecca-----Daphne Du Maurier《蝴蝶梦》The French Lieutenant’s Woman-----John Fowles《法国中尉的女人》Tess of the D’Urbervilles;Jude The Obscure-----Thomas Hardy《苔丝》，《无名的裘德》Ulysses----James Joyce 《尤利西斯》Tales from Shakespeare-----Charles Lamb 《莎士比亚故事集》Sons and wrence《儿子与情人》Daisy Miller-----Henry James《戴茜·米勒(2)美国文学Walden----by Henry David Thoreau 《瓦尔豋湖》梭罗著Leaves of Grass----by Walt Whitman 《草叶集》惠特曼著Death of a Salesman----by Eugene O’Neill 《推销员之死》尤金·奥尼尔著Theodore Dreiser----Sister Carrie《嘉莉妹妹》, An American Tragedy《美国悲剧》Ralph Ellison----Invisible Man 《隐形人》William Faulkner----Go Down, Moses《去吧，摩西》, The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》F.Scott Fitzgerald----The Great Gatsby 《伟大的盖茨比》Alex Haley----Roots 《根》Nathaniel Hawthorne----The Scarlet Letter《红字》Joseph Heller----Catch-22 《22条军规》Ernest Hemingway----The Sun Also Rises《太阳照常升起》, The Old Man and the Sea《老人与海》Harper lee----To Kill a Mockingbird《杀死一只知更鸟》Jack London----The Call of the Wild 《野性的呼唤》Martin Eden 《马丁·伊登》Margaret Mitchell----Gone with the Wind 《乱世佳人》Toni Morrison----The Bluest Eye 《最蓝的眼睛》Vladimir Nabokov----Lolita 《洛丽塔》J.D.Salinger----The Catcher in the Rye《麦田里的守望者》John Steinbeck----The Grapes of Wrath《愤怒的葡萄》Harriet Beecher Stowe----Uncle Tom's Cabin 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》Norman Mailer----The Naked and the Dead《裸者与死者》William Styron----Sophie's Choice《苏菲的抉择》Mark Twain----The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn，The Prince and the Pauper《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》《王子与贫儿》Alice Walker----The Color Purple《紫色》Edith Wharton----The Age of Innocence 《纯真年代》Louisa May Alcott----Little Women 《小妇人》Henry James----The Portrait of a Lady 《贵妇画像》另外推荐一些学习参考书：1.《英译中国现代散文选》---张培基译注2.《散文佳作108篇》英汉汉英对照3.《薄冰大学英语语法》（这本书可以再百度应用中找到）4.同学们在选购或是参考语法书的时候除了薄冰，还有张道真，章振邦的语法书可以参考。
经典课件Theodore_Dreiser
Main Literary Works
Sister Carrie 1900 《嘉莉妹妹》 嘉莉妹妹》 Jennie Gerhardt 1911 《珍妮姑娘》 珍妮姑娘》 Financial 1912 《金融家》 金融家》 The Titan 1914 《巨人》 巨人》 The “Genius” 1915 《天才 》 An American Tragedy 1925 《美国悲剧》 美国悲剧》 The Stoic 1947 《斯多葛》 斯多葛》
Born Died Occupation Wife Parents
Hale Waihona Puke 1871-08-27,Indiana 1945-12-28,Hollywood Novelist Sara White Sarah and John Paul Dreiser
Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Sarah and John Paul Dreiser, a strict Catholic family. John Paul Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Eifel region, and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming near Dayton, Ohio; she was disowned for marrying John and converting to Roman Catholicism. Theodore was the twelfth of thirteen children (the ninth of the ten surviving). The popular songwriter Paul Dresser (1857–1906) was his older brother.
英美文学四大思潮名词解释(全英)
Romanticism began in the mid-18th century and reached its height in the 19th century.It was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe.The ideologies and events of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution laid the background for Romanticism. The Enlightenment also had influence on Romanticism .It was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe.The Romantic literature of the nineteenth century concentrating on emotion, nature, and the expression of "nothing".famous romanticism writers are such as william Wordsworth:lyrical ballods、william whitman ：leaves of grass Realism beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-19th- and early-20th-century .It was a reaction againest romanticism and paved the way to modernism.the realism is product of europe capitalist system‟s establishment and development.the philosophy and science of europe in 19th century has promated its production authors trend to depictions of contemporary life and society as it was, or is. In the spirit of general "realism" ,realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylizedpresentation.The realism always like a mirror reflecting the real life.the main representatives of realism include Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》、Charles Dickens《Great Expectations》、Mark Twain 《the Adventures of Tom Sawyer》.Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that suggested that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.Naturalism is the outgrowth of literary realism,Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.The fittest，the survival is the famous sentence in his The origin of species.Naturalistic works exposed the dark harshness of life, including poverty, racism, violence, prejudice, disease, corruption,prostitution, and filth. As a result, naturalistic writers were frequently criticized for focusing too much on human vice and misery.Pessimism,detachment from the story,determinism and a surprising twist at the end of the story are the characteristics of literary naturalism.There tends to be in naturalist novels and stories a strong sense that nature is indifferent and hostile to human struggle.The term naturalism may have been used in this sense for the first time by Émile Zola.the main representatives of realism include Theodore Dreiser 《Sister Carrie》、Jack London《Martin Eden》Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America. In particular thedevelopment of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I, were among the factors that shaped Modernism. Modernism also rejects the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.All the same innovations, like the stream-of-consciousness novel, had precursors in the 19th century.Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression, adhering to Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new".The modernist literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. famous romanticism writers are such as George Joyce：Araby and Ulysses、George Eliot《The Waste Land》When we talk about Pride and Prejudice, the famous sentence that “It is a truth universally, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” is always the first thing came up to my mind. It can be the scripture of the whole fiction. the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.This book was written by Jane Austen，who was unmarried all her life.In this book she has vividly described five different kinds of loves and marriages by skillfully using irony and her witty and humorous lang uage. And the auther also asked us a question ,when we getmarried ,which should we consider :property,wealth and status or love? the author appreciate Darcy and Elizabeth‟s marriage.because it respected love.In the beginning, Elizabeth and Darcy were distant from each other because of Darcy‟s pride and Elizabeth …s prejudice. The series of events which they both experienced gave them the opportunity to understand one another and the time to reconcile their feelings for each other. Thus, their mutual understanding is the foundation of their relationship and will lead them to a peaceful and lasting marriage.The another example of a marriage is the marriage between Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, their marriage totally depended on the position, money, and the background, not the love .Their marriage seemed to be necessary but not happy.Lucas has to tolerate her husband‟s strange and foolish behavior, and her only comfort was her big new house and rich material life. It was a common practice during Austen‟s time for women to marry a husband to save herself from spinsterhood or to gain financial security. However, Jane Austen viewed this as a type of prostitution and disapproved of it.Of course ,it‟s not just a love story ,the auther also used a funny way to criticized a social attitude---money and status are everything.She thinks it‟s wrong to get married just for property, wealth and status while neither would it be without caring about those elements.marriage should be regarded carefully cause it is not a game you could just enjoy withoutprudent consideration. She also wanted to deliver the information that marriage should be based on real love between the lovers.英国1、Shakespeare莎士比亚《sonnet》（十四行诗）2、Daniel Defoe笛福《Robinson Crusoe》（鲁滨孙漂流记）3、Jonathan Swift斯威福特《Gulliver‟s Travels》（格列佛游记）4、Jane Austen简•奥斯汀《Pride and Prejudice》（傲慢与偏见）5、Charles Dickens狄庚斯《Great Expectations》（远大前程）6、Thomas Hardy哈代《The Return of the Native》（还乡）《Tess of the D‟Urbervilles》（德伯家的苔丝）《Jude the Obscure》（无名的裘德）7、Bernard Shaw萧伯纳《Leather Marely Weng》（皮革马利翁）8、James Joyce乔伊斯《Ulysses》（尤利西斯）《Araby》（阿拉比）9、D•H•Laurence劳伦斯《The Rocking Horse Winner》（木马赢家）《Sons and Lovers》（儿子与情人）美国：1、William Faulkner福克纳《My Deathbed》（我弥留之际）2、Hemingway海鸣威《The Sun Also Rises》（太阳照常升起）3、George Eliot艾略特《The Waste Land》（荒原）4、F•Scott Fitzgerald 《The Great Gatsby》（了不起的盖茨比）5、Washington Irving欧文《The Legend of Sleepy Hollow》（睡谷传说）6、Mark Twain马克吐温《Tom Sawyer》（汤姆索亚历险记）《Adventures of Huckleberry Finn》（哈克贝利•费恩历险记》7、Theodore Dreiser西奥多•德莱赛《Sister Carrie》（嘉莉妹妹）8、Nathaniel Hawthorne霍桑《The Scarlet Letter》（红字）9、Langston Hughes兰斯顿•休士（哈莱姆桂冠诗人）10、Harriet Beecher Stowe斯托夫人《Uncle Tom‟s Cabin》（汤姆叔叔的小屋）11、Ralph Ellison拉尔夫•艾里森《Invisible Man》（看不见的人）12、Alice Walker艾丽斯•沃克《The Color Purple》（紫色）13、Richard Wright赖特《Uncle Tom‟s Children》(汤姆叔叔的孩子们）《Native Son》（土生子）14、汤亭亭《The Woman Warrior》（女勇士）15、Amy Tan谭恩美《The Joy Luck Club》（喜福会）16、Tony Morrison托尼莫里森《Song of Solomon》（所罗门之歌）17、Benjamin Franklin富兰克林《Poor Richard‟s Afrr》（格言历书）18、Robert Frost罗伯特•弗罗斯特《Stopping by Words on a Snowy Evening》（雪夜林畔小驻）。
book report of sister carrie
Famous
Beautiful Rich Friends and happy life
Carrie, although rural
origin, but she was so ambitious, like her heart could be higher than the sky, she approached her goals and realize her dreams step by step. But she does not understand what love is, and lived a rich but empty life. Carrie has a youthful beauty and a restless heart, which destined her extraordinary.
•" the city offers everything for a woman to make her chromospheres things - wealth, fashion, ease "(Dreiser 18); • "she was dazzled at displays of ornaments, clothing, shoes, stationery, jewelry and other goods are very envious "; (Dreiser 17)
Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie 英语专业教学课件
Dreiser’s style
Dreiser is good at employing the journalistic method of reiteration to burn a central impression into the reader’s mind. His interest in painting is reflected in his taste for word-pictures. Sharp contrast, truth in color, and movement in outline. Here lies the power and permanence that have made Dreiser one of America’s foremost novelist.
The story of Sister Carrie
The three different worlds in which Sister Carrie moves: Her sister’s working-class existence Her life with Drouet in Chicago Her life with Hurstwood in New York The tragedy of Carrie
Major Features of Dreiser’s writing:
As a naturalistic writer, Drerser stressed determinism in his novels which deal with everyday life, often with its sordid side.
SISTER CARRIE (Theodore Dreiser)
SISTER CARRIETheodore Dreiser学号：1303200006 姓名：赵弯弯班级：13级专升本Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Sarah and John Paul Dreiser, a strict Catholic family. He lived a hard life. And he didn’t received the system of education. He was independent living in childhood. In childhood, he contacted with many layers of social character and the dark side. So it decided to create pessimism and naturalism in his works. He finished a maiden work, called Sister Carrie in 1990. Then he wrote many works, such as Jennie Gerhardt , An American Tragedy, The Financier, The Titan, The Genius and so on. I choose to read this book. Because I thought it accorded with real life. The book described a rural girl went to Chicago for living and finally she became a super star. The author of this novel used extinguished realism skill to expose the poverty, unemployment, starvation and dark of American society under the flourishing. The novel was the early representative in American naturalism. Meanwhile, it revealed the interpersonal callous stakes in American life. Everything for oneself. And it proved this point in modern life.The book told a girl, who is beautiful, timid, young and innocent, smart, vanity and full of fantasy for a big city. Carrie Meeber left her small town to find employment in the city of Chicago. She looked her sister and sought new life at the same time. Dazzling city made her take the train to the Chicago. However, she didn’t know that it covered many lies, fallacies, evils, hypocrisies in the dazzling city. She became Drouet and Hurstwood’s lover for living. Finally she become a famous star.The leading character in this novel was Carrie. What kind of person Carrie is? When I read the book, I thought Carrie was such an ordinary rural girl at the beginning of the story. Sitting on the seat of a bus, she couldn’t help feeling exciting at the sight of the metropolis’ spectacle. She was impressed deeply by large crowd on the avenue, the spacious square or tall buildings. But she was not afraid of the future. At the beginning of the book, a eighteen girl, who leaved her home and looked for hersister. She had a fantasy heart for big city. Carrie Meeber left her small town to find new life. Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, informed the reader that, “Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was nevertheless her guiding characteristic.” With her youth and innocence she hoped to seek employment so that she could get and bought all the nice things that she wanted. Carrie did not have any idea how hard this was going to be.In the book, “ when a girl leaves her home at home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. ” When I saw this, I was thinking. Isn’t it that in real life? Now many young people went out work. “ Live in the silt but not imbrued.” But as time goes on, many people got to go with the flow because of social pressure and life stress. And some people did bad things.Then I read this book, Carrie had many pressure about sister and her brother-in-law. When she tried to find a job, she was scared. Carrie had no skills to offer an employer, no job experience, and her clothing was of poor quality. Chicago was a large city, but society at that time did not have many job opportunities for working women. The only jobs that Carrie could possibly get were in the factories that, paid low wages, had poor working conditions, and long hours. Gradually, she was fed up with the poor life. After she lost her job, She thought about going back to her hometown. Then she met the business salesman Drouet again, who she met for the first time on the train to Chicago. Drouet was aware of her beauty and innocence and he hoped to charm and seduced her. Because Carrie was young and inexperienced in the world of men, she was not wise enough to understand where all Drouet's attention was leading toward. Although she knew that the money should be given back, her desire and longing for the good things in life were so powerful that she ignored her beliefs in what was right and wrong. If she gave up this life, she would live a poor life again. That was Carrie, a girl had her own desire, a human being just like many others in the realistic world.There’s one sentence written in chapter VIII:” When this jangleof free-will instinct shall have been adjusted, when perfect understanding has given the former the power to replace the latter entirely, man will no longer vary.”“In Carrie ― as in how many of our wordings do they not? ― instinct and reason, desire and understanding, were at war for the mastery.” When I read this, I changed my opinion for Carrie. She was not a innocent and lovely girl at all. Because she could not stand the poor life. She yielded to real life. It was unthinkable for any decent woman to live with a man without marriage. Yet, Carrie ignored the rules. Then she found a job in the theater. During the time, there were many contradictions between Carrie and Drouet. When Drouet invites his friend, Hurstwood, who is manger of Fitzgerald and Moy’s. He had been pointed out as a very successful and well-known man about town. His managerial position was fairly important---a kind of stewardship which was imposing, but lacked financial control. He was attracted this girl and he began to pursue the girl. Even he ignored the rules. In order to be with the girl he beloved, Hurstwood s tolen the wine shop’s business money. He cheated Carrie into eloping with him. Drouet's promise to eventually marry Carrie allowed her to ignore her conscience which told her that her behavior was wrong. The longer Drouet and Carrie lived together, she finally realized that she is not deeply in love with him. Carrie had gone with Drouet because of financial need to avoid returning to her hometown. Carrie loved Hurstwood and agreed to leave with him believing that they would marry each other right away. However, Carrie was deceived again.In my opinion, Carrie lived with two men as their mistress. They gave her the material things she desired. Her judgment in selecting men was based on their appearance and not on their character. I ever thought she was vanity and self-abandonment. She loved a kind of entertainments. She wanted to got the upper reaches of society. Gradually, I hated her.The climax was Hurstwood’s life in New York. The money he stolen was finally confiscated. Their life was in straitened circumstances. It was ironic that she was backing in the same financial situation as before. Hurstwood was not able to find or keep a job. With no one left to support her, Carrie got a job. As her theater career roseand her social status improved, Hurstwood became completely dependent on Carrie. He was no longer the intelligent, assured, and cultured man that she thought he was. With the ability to support herself, Carrie leaves Hurstwood. He became a street person and ended up with killing himself.After Hurstwood went broke, Carrie discarded him. Maybe many people thought thar it was degrading. AT the same time, she became a star at the actor.She got money and career.After she became a star, she met Ames. Ames said: “ What good would it do ? A man doesn’t need this sort of thing to be happy.” When she became a star at the actor, got the upper reaches of society and realized her fantasy. However, the so-called "upper-class social life" did not give her anything at all? She felt that life was empty and couldn’t find the true meaning of life. Being in the loneliness and desolation, she dreamed of sitting in a rocking chair in a TV drama without happiness.When I finished the book, I was wrong. I should not criticize Carrie. How did I can？Actually, I didn’t know.From ancient to modern times, human followed sage. We thought they were perfect. But we were human. We looked forward to living a rich life. We want to enjoy life. So did Carrie. She lived a poor life at her sister’ s home. She re alized that it was hard and money was important. So she tried her best to get everything.However, why was Carrie not happy? She got everything. Money, career and so on. Actually, we pursued good life. It is right. But to my enlightenment, as we busy pursu ing material life and scrambling power and social position, we shouldn’t ignore our spiritual needs. We should find the true meaning of life. In my opinion, we had some sincere friends, harmonious family and our obligation. I ever saw the sentence:” One su preme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”。
美国文学Sister Carrie英文(课堂PPT)
Carrie(a country girl)
Charles H. Drouet(traveling salesman)
live together; mistress(情妇)
George W. Hurstwood (resort manager)
mistress; Eloping（私奔）
famous actress 3
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Criticize
it mainly analyzes the character to depict a real American social life in the late 1890’s, especially those of poor people’s lives from struggling, fighting to failing for their socalled “American Dreams”. At last, the article points out the most important resource resulting in the tragedies: the American social system.
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Chas.H.Drouet:
a buoyant traveling salesman ;
good clothes; daring;
kindly familiarity
Caroline Meeber: bright; timid;
full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth
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Words Characteristic
❖ using lots of words to discribe the environment and human inside that to form the characters.
英语专业4级经典美文-99.Sister Carrie【声音字幕同步PPT】
The fire in the grate, too, had burned low. "Where are you, Cad?" he said,
using a pet name he had given her. "Here," she answered.
They caused her to cling closer to things she possessed.
One short song the young lady played in a most soulful and tender mood.
Carrie heard it through the open door from the parlour below.
within the small limit of her experience. She became for the moment a repentant.
While she was in this mood Drouet came in, bringing with him an entirely different atmosphere.
It was at that hour between afternoon and night
when, for the idle, the wanderer, things are apt to take on a wistful aspect.
The mind wanders forth on far journeys and returns with sheaves of withered and
Sister Carrie(英文原著)
Sister CarrieTheodore Dreiser is one of the most influential American writers of critical realism, but many of his works referred to the description of naturalism and weakened his critical spirit. When most novels deal only with the smiling and beautiful aspects of life, Dreiser advocates truthful reflection of life in his fiction. It is not an exaggeration to say that Dreiser's Sister Carrie clears the way for the development of American fiction. In Sister Carrie Dreiser details the relationship among reason, free will and instinct: When humans' instinct and reason are at war, the former prevails over the latter in most instances; humans' free will is mostly an illusion and submits to humans' instinct.Theodore Dreiser is regarded as an outstanding representative of American naturalism. In this thesis, Dreiser’s first novel Sister Carrie is taken as an example to analyze the features of Dreiser’s naturalism. The thesis referred to three great historical and cultural background of the novel which are Darwinism, Determinism. American Naturalism and Consumerism. Meanwhile the thesis analyzes three features of naturalism. At last, we can draw the conclusion that the leading character of the novel-Carrie’s destiny h as a great connection with Dreiser himself and the decline of Hurstwood is a result of Dreiser’s fear of failure, but Dreiser attributes Carrie and Hurstwood’s unhappiness to their insatiable desire for life or they are doomed to be unhappy etc, and from w hich we can see Dreiser’s naturalism easily.“Sitting in the rocking chair, Carrie dreams her future”---this is the deep impression the novel Sister Carrie gives me, sending me into a mournful and thoughtful state. Though Carrie, the heroine, a pure girl from a little village, was born in a working family of a flour mill. Far more different from other heroines, Carrie was not a plain pure angel like Snow-white, nor was she brave enough to be a heroine of revolutionist or even a reformer, nor was she so clever as to be a successful career woman who start from scratch. she yearns for the luxurious life in a big city. Ambitious as a girl like her, she goes to Chicago with a surge of being rich. What attracted her most, after her entering this huge metropolis was the incredible fineries, fashion shoes, smart handbags displaying in the shop windows, the jewellery shining brightly behind the glass. She dreamed that one day, she could wear all of these, jogging gracefully into the most luxurious hotel with focused sights of admiration.On the train, he met a man, Derouet, who opened the door to the gorgeous city lifefor her . Under the temptation of beautiful clothes, magnificent houses and rarefied dishes, she surrendered. She became Derouet’s girl friend. H owever ,when better temptation came, she surrendered again. She eloped with Hurstwood, a manager of a groggery who just got a large amount of money. They did have s short period of happy life in New York. But latter on , Hurstwood used up all the money and Carrie became a famous star. She did not want others to know her past,so the vain girl left Hurstwood. With no money, no affection from his former lover—Carrie, Hurstwood totally broke down. He finally committed a suicide.To some extend, she had loved Hurstwood. But when love met her ideal life, she had to discard it. Her love to Hurstwood was based on money and social status. Her experience of struggling for better life made her lose the ability to love. At last , Carrie succeeded. She owned what she dreamed of , money ,social status, luxurious houses and beautiful clothese. She was the focus. However , she owned all this at the cost of losing herself. This was all her life.I don't think it is all Carrie's fault ,because everyone love beautiful things and better life,especially girls..All girls have the same dream of becoming a shining princess with others' adoration.Carrie didn't do it on purpose.In the pursuit of money,social status and her dreams,she had give up something she had already pared with her dreaming life,she close to abandon her so called"love".We can't say that she was cold blooded or hardhearted,she was just an ordinary girl who lost herself under the temptation of gorgeous material things.Her love to Hurstwood was based on money and social status.Her experience of struggling for better life made her lost the ability to love and the true happiness...She long for happiness,but she realized that she never get it,just as it reads"In your rocking chair,by your window,shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel".Carrie is the embodiment of the typical Americans who are morally adrift in the brutal, unprincipled and materialistic world. Losing themselves in the world of benefit-first, market-directed economy, most Americans at that period run after fortune and fame all their lives, considering little about their moral ones. The current situation in China is the same. Students study for the sake of plump wallets, doctors work for the purpose of “red envelope” given by the help less patients, and more similar to Carrie, young ladies, in order to live a sumptuous life, dream of marrying handsome and rich men or even become the other women of wealthy men.Such a phenomenon reflects the prevalence of mammonism in our materialsociet y. Do their pursuits of fortune make sense? I don’t think so. Like Carrie, when these worldly people get what they want at last, most of them come to realize that their lives are empty. As far as I am concerned, what the author manages to tell us is the virtue of life. Chasing after high-quality and high-standard life is of no blame, but it should not be the ultimate goal of life. One ought to live a meaningful life, with a confidant or confidante, with a happy family and his or her responsibilities and obligation. Totally different from this spiritual-and-material life, the hotel manager Hurstwood only lives in the corporeal world. Neither has he had a family nor taken up his job. What he simply owns are a house and a woman and what he has done is only showing off his fortune.As time went by, she realized that it was bubble. She longed for happiness but she knew she could never get it. “In your rocking chair, by your window,shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” This was the author gave to Carrie.。
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1. Life : Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945)
Dreiser was born from a large, poor, religious, immigrant family at Terre Haute, Indiana on August 27, 1871. He spent his childhood in bitter poverty, lacking education, skill and status. From the age of fifteen he was mainly on his own, taking a variety of menial jobs. As a youth he rebelled against the poverty and narrowness of life around him. In 1886-1887 he attended an Indiana high school and then dropped out to seek jobs in Chicago. One of his high school teachers recognized his talent and insisted on lending him money to go to Indiana University in 1889.
(1941).
In 1938 he attended International Peace Conference in Paris.
In 1944 he was awarded the Merit Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In May, 1945, he joined the American Communist Party. He died of heart failure in Hollywood, California, on December 28, 1945. 2. Major Features (1) As a naturalistic writer, Dreiser stresses determinism in his novels which deal with everyday life, often with its sordid side. His characters are pathetic in their inability to escape their fates. His characters are subject to the control of the natural forces of heredity and environment.
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser (德莱塞) and Sister Carrie Dreiser was born from a large, poor and religious family in Indiana. In high school, teachers recognized his talent and lend him money to go to University. But he left to acquire real education from personal experience. He worked on various jobs. In 1898 he married Sara White and began writing short stories. His first novel is Sister Carrie.His masterpiece is An American Tragedy. His characters are pathetic in their inability to escape their fates. As a naturalistic writer, His characters are subject to the control of the natural forces of heredity and environment. In 1944 he was awarded the Merit Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters(德莱塞被美国文学艺术学会授予荣誉奖).A girl named Carrie moves to Chicago to start her American dream. On the train, she talks with a man named Drouet, a salesman. During their conversation, Drouet offers to show her around the city. They make a date for the following Monday. Carrie takes a job in a shoe factory. But an illness costs her job. Then she moves in with Drouet. Drouet installs her in a large apartment. By the time Drouet introduces Carrie to Hurstwood. Hurstwood, unhappy with his wife and children, instantly falls in love with Carrie, and before long they start an affair secretly. But the affair is uncovered: Drouet discovers he has been cuckolded, Carrie learns that Hurstwood is married, and Hurstwood’s wife learns that Hurstwood has been out with another wom an. After a night of drinking, He embezzles many money. He lures Carrie onto a train and escapes with her to Canada. But Hurstwood’s guilty conscience induces him to return most of the stolen funds. Hurstwood asks Carrie to marry her, and the couple move to New York City. In New York, Hurstwood and Carrie rent a flat. But gradually the couple grows distant; Carrie realizes that Hurstwood no longer is the powerful manager. After only a few years, Hurstwood soon discovers that his savings are running out and urges Carrie to economize, which she finds humiliating and distasteful. Carrie turns to New York’s theatres for employment. Carrie begins to rise to small speaking roles. Hurstwood’s ill-fated venture prompts Carrie to leave him. Hurstwood ultimately becomes a beggar and suicide. Meanwhile, Carrie achieves stardom, but finds that money and fame do not bring her happiness and that nothing will.On one hand, the book reveals the decadence and sham of bourgeois world. On the other hand, it also elaborates the unemployment, the starvation and the struggle of the workers and the poor, which fully expresses the author’s profound sympathy for the laborers.。
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2. His childhood was spent in extreme poverty.
3. After some months at Indiana University, he became a reporter on the Chicago Globe before arriving in New York in 1894.
A feather in the wind, she is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot
comprehend, The tragedy of Hurstwood
Dreiser’s portrait is an authentic one of the important modern man unfit to survive
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
American author, outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict real-life subjects in a harsh light
Life:
1. Dreiser was born in Indiana, the ninth child of German-speaking parents.
6. He faced every form of attack that a serious artist could encounter misunderstanding, misrepresentation, artistic isolation and commercial seduction. But he survived to lead the rebellion of the 1900s.
7.Dreiser died of heart failure on December 28, 1945, before completing the last chapter of The Stoic.
8.Dreiser was buried in Hollywood's Forest Lawn Cemetery on January 3, 1946.
The book was initially rejected by many publishers on the grounds that is was "immoral". Indeed, Harper Brothers, the first publisher to see the book, rejected it by saying it was not, "sufficiently delicate to depict without offense to the reader the continued illicit relations of the heroine".
The theme in Sister Carrie, a novel written by Theodore Dreiser, is materialism. The theme is primarily personified through Carrie with her desire for a fine home, clothes and everything else money can buy.
The story of Sister Carrie
The three different worlds in which Sister Carrie moves: Her sister’s working-class existence Her life with Drouet in Chicago Her life with Hurstwood in New York The tragedy of Carrie
4. His first novel, Sister Carrie, was rejected because of his relentless honesty in presenting the true nature of American life.
5. The young author felt so depressed by “a decade’s delay”—in the words of Larzer Ziff—in social recognition that he was said to have walked by the East River at the turn of the century, seriously committing suicide.
Sister Carrie, published in 1900, is one of the bestknown story of American Dream, tracing the material rise of Carrie Meeber and the tragic decline of G. W. Hurstwood.
Materialism, including the desire for money, is an important theme in Sister Carrie. The materialism is shown mostly through Carrie's character but also through Hurstwood, a man with a respectable life and money, who still wants more and for that reason commits a crime. The city in itself is also a place of materialism, it is a place that offers all kinds of amusements, pleasures and things to buy, but to participate in what the city has to offer one has to have money.