Sister Carrie情节分析
Analysis of Sister Carrie英语论文写作
Analysis of Sister CarrieAbstract: The purpose of this thesis is to prove that a person’s nature is influenced by his living environment through analyzing the changing of the leading role ofSister Carrie.Keywords: Sister Carrie literature desire changeSister Carrie, written by Theodore Dreiser, was his first novel. Dreiser was one of the principal American exponents of literary Naturalism. A critics once said, "No other author has withstood so much vehemently negative criticism and retained such a high status."1 As his first novel, Sister Carrie faced the same situation. Because the readers are shocked by the heroine, a "fallen woman", Sister Carrie got poor sales. Several years later, Sister Carrie was received favorably in England, and was reissued in the United States. Someone said, "Sister Carrie was unique in American fiction, departing sharply from the gentility and timidity of Howellsian realism."2 Certainly, Sister Carrie gets a very important position in American Literary history. Carrie, the heroine of the novel, has the most ideas and emotion of the author. Therefore, we can know what's the thesis of the novel through analyzing the leading role--Carrie. I think that a person's nature is influenced by his living environment and people’s requirement towards life is limitless.First of all, to analyze a person must follow some order. This order must be obvious and easy to understand. In this article, I analyze this character through different locations of the actions that happened in this novel because of three reasons.First, changing location changes a person obviously. This is an objective law. After moving to a new place, one faces new environment including new friends, new traditions, new customs, etc. A person is influenced easily by these elements. In ancient China, Meng Zi's mother moved their home to other places three times for her child, Meng Zi. Because she knew that bad environment did harm to Meng Zi's study. This story can be a good evidence to prove this theory. Time can change a person's appearance but it cannot change a person's inside. But the changing of the location can easily change a person's inside such as appearance, behavior, tastes and so on.Second, the author really wants to prove that a person's psychological desire changes with environmental changing. From immature to mature, Carrie Meeber makes some decisions. These decisions all have connections with the place where she lives in. For example, Carrie decides to live with Drouet because of her sister’s poor home and the prosperous Chicago. Another example is that she feels unsatisfied with Hurstwood because she can not bear the gap between their small apartment and the wonderful New York. The new environment spurs her on new desire and deserts her present life.Third, in this novel, the leading characters' outside and inside changed obviously when they lived in the different cities. For example, Carrie's second lover, Hurstwood,becomes a beggar in New York. He was a successful manager of a reputable saloon, but when he lives in New York, an unfamiliar city to him, he lost his charming, courage and vigor. From being somebody to being nobody, he cannot get used to his new life. He gives up his efforts and starts to read newspaper everyday. Finally, he kills himself at a snowing night. We cannot say that his changing is caused by the change of the place. However, we can see that the change of the location is a very important reason for that.Another reason is that the author also has the same experiences. To some degree, some plots are reflections of his actual life. Author wants to show his life experience in his novel. From Dreiser's life introduction, we can see it clearly. Dreiser was born in a poor Indiana family. When he was young, he went to Chicago and sought his fortunes. Finally he arrived in New York, and his journey was almost the same to Carrie's. So the author wrote some of his actual life in his first novel.Through the changes of the location of action, we can see it clearly that Carrie changes herself and her nature was expressed during different terms. I think that the course of her changing should be divided into three parts--on the train, in Chicago and in New York.Someone might say that the plot on the train is not something important, but I think the first chapter is extremely important. It is the basic of the plots followed. The writer introduces his theme and plot through foreshadowing, and he sets carefularrangement of details and describes the first figure of the heroine.First, the first chapter shows an eighteen-year-old innocent young girl to us. "She looks forward to Chicago with mixed timidity and hope, ignorance and youngful expectancy."3 That is, a young inexperienced girl leaves her home in the country to go and try her luck in a large city. From some details of her talking and action, she shows her innocence and immaturity. She is young, inexperienced and even naive, poor, and frightened by the city. The conversation with Drouet expressed her vanity and mutability. Carrie expresses her keen interest in attractive clothing and the shame of her own clothing. Drouet flatters Carrie by saying that she resembles a popular actress. She was fascinated by his elegant appearance. Carrie does not realize that the man who approaches her does not act out of kindness but simply because he is moved by "an insatiable love of variable pleasure"4.Second, the conversation between Carrie and Drouet gives her the first impression of a big city. It's the beginning of the uncovering of her nature. His clothing, talking and taste are what she has never met. He gives her the first impression of a big city before she arrives in Chicago. She admires Drouet's appearance which looks very popular and she accepts his bold overtures, like the author says,"When a girl leaves her 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."5This is a beginning, a beginning of changing. In this chapter, the author givesCarrie all the characteristics of a young, inexperienced country girl, Drouet all those of the enterprising young man of the world.When Carrie lives in Chicago, her nature leads her to the ladder to the upper class. Her life is changing through her decisions towards the opportunities.Firstly, after departing with Drouet, Carrie Meeber follows her sister to the flat where her sister lives with her husband and baby. Watching her sister's family and perceiving the poorness of the apartment, she feels the drag of a lean and narrow life which consists mainly of hard work. Carrie's experience of job-hunting and hardworking makes her sad and tired. As a shy country girl, at first she does not dare enter buildings to enquire. When at last she gathers enough courage and applies for work, she fails. But eventually she does manage to find work at the end of this long and exhausting day and returns to her sister's flat with uplifted spirits. But the kind of the work she has found is mechanical, repetitive, and because of the lack of even minimal comfort on the premises, exhausting. Carrie nearly cannot bear the hardworking as well as the chatting between the other girls and the young men in her factory. Now, Carrie is starting at the very bottom of the ladder, but at least she is off to some sort of a start. We can see from Carrie's working process that she is remarkably ambitious, that she has a feeling of superiority for she feels sure "that she did not want to make friends with any of these [people]"; "she felt as though she should be better served"6. This can explain her living with Drouet for pursuing better living conditions in the following days.Secondly, Carrie does not appreciate her sister's life style. She thinks that her sister is very industrious while she does not appreciate that. Her sister and her sister's husband are the same kind of people. Their family life is full of plans and ties and they get used to the poor living conditions. However, Carrie, a young girl, likes popular things. She thinks they are too dull, too dreary, and they lack the magic and fate which she is searching for.Thirdly, prosperous big city and abundant materials simulated her vanity. Carrie can't resist the temptation of the clothing and the jewelries placed in stores. All above builds a foreshadowing that Carrie will leave this apartment to quest her life.To live with Drouet leads her to the first step towards the better life. Since she cannot go to work and pay for the rent because of her illness, she is very depressed. Drouet appears and helps her. He takes her to dinner, agrees with her that she deserves a better lot, and "loans" her some money.Her acceptance of the 20 dollars is a turn of her life which her nature requests. She lives with her sister and must pay for two and a half dollars for renting. Since she can't get any income because of her illness, she needs the money so that she could stay at Chicago. She doesn't want to go back, but she has her self-esteem, so she refuses the money at first. She feels ashamed that she has been weak enough to take his money. This emotion shows that she is still a pure, innocent girl. Dreiser opens Chapter 7 with a justification of the power of money which betrays his uneasiness about it:When each individual realizes for himself that [money] primarily stands for and should only be accepted as a moral due-that it should be paid out as honestly stored energy, and not as a usurped privilege-many of our social, religious, and political troubles will have permanently passed.7Carrie does not seem to be troubled by the morality of the capitalist system so long as she does not have to suffer from it: "Ah, money, money, money!" she thinks, "what a thing it was to have. How plenty of it would clear away all these troubles".8 She is lured by Drouet because he has money, and he is attracted to her because she is a pretty girl who needs protection. He talks to her into buying new clothes, renting a room in town, and leaving her sister's apartment. At this time, she thinks Drouet is kind and intends no evil. For her needs are so desperate, she is glad to have "two soft, green, handsome ten-dollar bills." The 20 dollars leads her heart much closer to Drouet and apart from her sister. This is the first time for a girl from the countryside to have so much money. Her vanity is simulated though she does not use that money to buy anything.Since Carrie thinks Drouet can be relied on and she couldn't bear the atmosphere in her sister's apartment, she has the last dinner with her sister's family and leaves there in a streetcar with Drouet. To go with Drouet is a mark that Carrie's nature demands her to cast off her present life and to pick a new way to satisfy herself. Facing Drouet, Carrie feels that she is something, not the poor manufacture worker. This satisfies her vanity greatly.In Drouet's presence, Carrie feels thoroughly at ease and sees the world clearly. Through Drouet the world shows more of its possibilities and kind. It is Drouet whoshows Carrie the step to the upper class. We can analyze this in three aspects.Firstly, living in the new environment which provided by Drouet, Carrie becomes much more beautiful and attractive. Since she becomes Drouet's kept girl, she does not work-and hardly thinks of doing so any more-and he pays her expenses. She is a good imitator of worldly manners and attitudes. She assumes the airs of a lady gradually, as the novel tells, "She became a girl of considerable taste".9 Secondly, she meets Hurstwood through Drouet. Hurstwood has fallen under Carrie's charm: "She was pretty, graceful, rich in the timidity born of uncertainty, and with something child-like in her large eyes which captured the fancy of this starched and conventional poser men."10 On the other hand, for Carrie, "When Hurstwood called, she met a man who was more clever than Drouet in a hundred ways",11she senses that Hurstwood is the superior man, and this man can give her better chances to further her ambitions, so when Hurstwood tells her that he loves her, she allows him to kiss her. She is ambitious and furthers her own ends rather unscrupulously.Thirdly, Drouet gives her first experience on the stage. This simulates her another aspect of her nature. Through Drouet she gets a part as the leading actress in an amateur performance of Daly's Under the Gaslight. This, after a disastrous beginning, proves to be quite a success. Carrie is excited about this. She has gifts to be an actress. She is good at learning and imitating. This is a foreshadowing of her future-Miss Carrie Madenda, a famous actress. She realizes that to be an actor will satisfy her vanity in another way. So this is always her hope through all her life.Falling in love with Carrie Meeber, Hurstwood's married life now takes a turn for the worse. He makes several mistakes which give his wife good grounds to suspect that he has a lover. She sues him for divorce, which threatens to ruin him as all his wealth is under her name. Then he steals the money in the safe although he doesn't intend to. He deceives Carrie and persuades her to get on the train. He has Carrie but he has almost lost all his property--his family, his job and his fortune.Hurstwood and Carrie move to New York. Carrie finally realizes her dream and her nature is satisfied by her success there.After they move to New York, Hurstwood rents an apartment. This small apartment is a peaceful place for Carrie, in fact, it limits her nature opened in Chicago. Carrie's nature uncovers gradually and she is ambitious and furthers her own ends rather unscrupulously.First, New York, which is full of "wealth, place and fame", gives Carrie a deep impression. Everywhere is fashion and popular to Carrie. But to Hurstwood, in New York, he is nothing and has no friends, no job and little money. He finds work as a manager of a saloon but he has little money left. "It was no gathering or lounging place. Whole days and weeks passed without one such hearty greeting as he had been wont to enjoy every day in Chicago".12 The money he earns can only allow them to subsist. The free-wheeling and free-spending Hurstwood of Chicago has been reduced to a rather pitiful penny-pinching individual. This is not a good thing to Hurstwood, but to Carrie, this situation is even worse. Carrie senses the change in Hurstwood of course. Shefinds him nervous and secretive. She can clearly feel that life in New York is not so comfortable as that in Chicago. This contrast makes her feel more uncomfortable but she doesn't think that she is limited by Hurstwood because she is always passive and receptive.Second, in the year of their living in New York, Carrie meets and knows a young woman--Mrs. Vance, their neighbor. She is a striking woman who makes Carrie realize that she would like to be treated as well as she is. She begins to be dissatisfied with the current state of affairs.Mrs. Vance takes her to a matinee party and opens her eyes. She notices that her new neighbor is much better dressed than she is. "It cut her to the quick, and she resolved that she could not come here again until she looks better."13 Carrie feels that she is insulted by the beautiful and expensive clothes. Her vanity makes her sad and has a huge desire of owning all that she admires--clothes, perfumes, mansions, carriages. She is really disappointed because of Hurstwood's income and his limitation.With new friends, Carrie takes to going to the theater and eating in very expensive restaurants, but Hurstwood is not interested in and could not afford anymore. Carrie begins to think other men wiser than Hurstwood. She thinks that this man isn’t reliable and Hurstwood is much duller in her eyes. Her desire of entering the upper class becomes stronger.After she goes to the theatre, she thinks again of trying to become an actress. It is clear that her independence starts to grow up, and she is never happy with what she has. Carrie always wants more and more and she will do anything to obtain what shewants. However, since Hurstwood's income can allow them subsist and Carrie is always passive and receptive, she is under the controlling of Hurstwood and feels dissatisfied every day.Hurstwood begins to grow old physically and mentally. The business which he invested is going to break. The future looks bleak for him. They have to move out of the house to a smaller flat. Carrie becomes restless and dissatisfied. At this time, she begins to feel that living with Hurstwood is a mistake. To some degree, Hurstwood's failure on business gives Carrie a chance to liberate her life. I'll analyze this in three aspects.Firstly, after Hurstwood loses his job, he starts looking for another job, but he failed. His job-hunting experience is unpleasant and demeaning. He now begins each day with disgust, depression, shamefacedness. He also loses his heart and sits in hotel Cobbies instead of looking for work. He looks haggard about the eyes and quite old. Carrie notices this, and it does not appeal to her. At this moment, we can say that she has little with him. In this condition, Carrie finds a job as an actress. Their roles have been reversed and she is the one who earns their living now. Present time is far different from the past time. Carrie grasps the money and her independence expands. She can buy her new clothes. On one hand, this situation satisfies her vanity and natural request; on the other hand, it expands her nature's requests and vanity. Earning money by herself brings another problem. That is, Carrie begins to think that "It isn't right that I should support him".14 From here we can see that Carrie doesn't really lovesHurstwood, she is just pursuing a better living condition. Their relationship between Hurstwood and Carrie has reached a very low point. "So changed was her state that the home atmosphere became intolerable. It was all poverty and trouble there."15From Carrie's more and more dissatisfaction caused by her expanding vanity and desire of materials day by day we can see her nature clearly now. She can be indifferent to her lover's degrading and plans to come back home late to miss dinner with Hurstwood. Her nature leads her to stay away far from this burden.Secondly, as Hurstwood always fails in his attempt to find a job, Carrie gets a promotion and a rise in salary. Because of this and Hurstwood's increasing despondency, she makes up her mind to leave him. She is aware of that "There was something cruel somewhere"16 but she still goes away. She only leaves some fortune to him. What she does is somewhat heartless, even cruel, but since she doesn't really love him, she just follows the direction made by her nature, her ambition. In Chicago, she goes with Drouet for casting off the hard-working days and poor living conditions. After that, she deserts Drouet and agrees to stay with Hurstwood because she thought that Hurstwood would bring her a better life. Now she realizes that she can only rely on herself and she doesn't want to have any burden. So she makes the decision and finishes it quickly and mercilessly. Hurstwood's behavior and hers form a sharp contrast. When Hurstwood reads about Carrie in the newspaper in a third-rate hotel, he says "well, let her have it, I won't bother her."17This sharp contrast only shows that Hurstwood loves Carrie while Carrie just likes him or we can say that Carrie just likes his social position. For Carrie, she is always pursing the better life and she climbs tothe upper class step by step. She just wants to stay in the big city and live a comfortable life. Her moving out from the small flat symbolizes that she decides to cast off her former life and quest a new and beautiful life alone.Thirdly, Carrie's great success in her show brings her more money and her request of nature is simulated and becomes limitless. Since she succeeds in her job, Carrie now has a comfortable dressing room and gets an offer from one of the best hotels on Broadway to occupy one of its suites. She also receives a lot of love letters and marriage proposals. But Carrie remains level-headed: "She smiled to think that men should suddenly find get so much more attractive. In the least way it incited her to coolness and indifference".18She realizes that money does not create real friendship or eliminate loneliness. But for Carrie, she seems never to have enough.Her success satisfies her nature and vanity with abundant money and materials but she is empty. The novel closes with Carrie; she is rich successful, adulated. "Applause there was, and publicity…and yet she was lonely",19 longing for a happiness she will never find in wealth or popularity. Although Carrie lives a luxurious life and lives at the Waldorf, one of New York's most prestigious hotels, she can red Balzac's Pere Goriot, she cannot understand what the real happiness is. On the point of view, the rocking-chair is one of those concrete things. At the very end of the novel, the rocking-chair is connected directly with Carrie's brooding and pensive moods, with her realization that success, applause, and money do not necessarily bring happiness: "She was lonely. In her rocking-chair she sat…singing and dreaming".20 "In your rocking-chair,by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel".21 These words expresses the empty and loneliness in Carrie's heart. She is very successful but she has no true love. Through Drouet and Hurstwood, she has the chance to be successful. Now what she lacks is the spiritual life. She envies Ames but she can never understand him. She always seeks the materials and that's why she feels empty now.Conclusion:First, it's Carrie's nature that leads her to success step by step. On the train, she is attracted by Drouet's dressing. At that time, Carrie is young, inexperienced and naive, and she leaves her home in the country and only wants to try her luck in the big city. In Chicago, she goes with Drouet for casting off the hard-working days and poor living conditions. That's because she knows for sure that she wants to stay in Chicago and she longs for a comfortable life. When she meets Hurstwood, she begins to see Drouet's weak points and to compare him with Hurstwood, and she can clearly define that Hurstwood is superior to Drouet. Her nature which is full of ambition makes her to accept Hurstwood's love for improving her living condition. So she deserts Drouet and agrees to stay with Hurstwood with the thoughts that Hurstwood would bring her a better life. In New York, as Hurstwood always fails to find a job, Carrie realizes that she can only relies on herself and she finds a job by herself. Because of Carrie's nature which is always longing for money and Hurstwood's increasing despondency, Carrieleaves Hurstwood and becomes more and more successful in her career. All through these actions, we can see her nature which is expressed through her vanity which makes her full of ambition. Her ambition has a direction that she should have a happy life. But because of her innocence that she thinks beautiful dressing means happiness, she never gets real happy life even when she is rich in fortune.Second, on the whole, Carrie is rather passive and receptive. Carrie is not a woman of calculation but of instinct who constantly wants to push on towards something better. Initially she wants things which she does not have and she improves her material condition gradually, step by step, first with Drouet, then with Hurstwood, finally through her career as an actress. When she has everything, she is bored. Carrie is not aggressive, even not very calculating. She does not create opportunities for herself, she is drawn into them as they present themselves. She is quick to seize a new opportunity, but on the whole, she is rather passive and receptive.Third, we can see people's requirement towards life is limitless. In this novel, every step of Carrie is to pursue a higher standard life, she is longing for materials. At the end of the story, she is rich in her career, but she still feels lonely. She needs spiritual comfort. She has to persist in seeking the happiness. So in all, people's requirement towards life is limitless.Notes1Dennis Poupard, Twentieth-century Literary Criticism; vol. 10 (Gale Research Company, 1983), P.492 Dennis Poupard, Twentieth-century Literary Criticism; vol. 10 (Gale Research Company, 1983), P.493 Frederick J. Balling, M.A., Cliffs Notes on Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (U.S.A.: Lincoln, Nebraska, 1967), P.184 Professor A.N. 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Sister Carrie
Julia Hurstwood, George's strong-willed, socialclimbing wife. Jessica Hurstwood, George and Julia's daughter, who shares her mother's aspirations to social status. George Hurstwood, Jr, George and Julia's son. The Vances, a wealthy merchant and his wife, who live in the same building as Hurstwood and Carrie in New York City. Robert Ames, Mrs. Vance's cousin from Indiana, a handsome young scholar whom Carrie regards as a male ideal. Lola Osborne, a chorus girl Carrie meets during a theatre production in New York, who encourages Carrie to become her roommate.
• Plots • Characters
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Plot
• Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet(杜洛埃 ), a traveling salesman. • After only a few years, Carrie turns to New York’s theatres for employment and becomes a chorus girl. Once again, her aptitude for theatre serves her well, and, as the rapidly aging Hurstwood declines into obscurity, Carrie begins to rise from chorus girl to small speaking roles. • Carrie achieves stardom, but finds that money and fame do not satisfy her longings or bring her happiness and that nothing will.
《嘉莉妹妹》介绍
Style and genre
At the urging of his journalist friend Arthur Henry, Dreiser began writing his manuscript in 1899. He frequently gave up on it but Henry urged him to continue. From the outset, his title was Sister Carrie, though he changed it to The Flesh and the Spirit while writing it; he restored the original name once complete. Dreiser had difficulty finding a publisher for Sister Carrie. Doubleday & McClure Company accepted the manuscript for publication but it was withdrawn after the publisher's wife declared it too sordid. Dreiser insisted on publication and 1,008 copies were printed on November 8, 1900. The book was not advertised and only 456 copies sold.[6] However, Frank Norris, who was working as a reader at Doubleday, sent a few copies to literary reviewers.
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Sister Carrie (1900)
It is a novel wrote by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city Chicago where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men, and later becomes a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels" and was made into a movie by William Wyler in 1952. (Carrie 1952)
sister carrie英文书评
sister carrie英文书评《Sister Carrie》这本书的英文书评如下：Sister Carrie is a powerful portrayal of one woman's journey through the complexities of urban life in late 19th-century America. The novel, written by Theodore Dreiser, delves into themes of ambition, society's expectations, and the individual's struggle to find their place in the world.The story revolves around the character of Carrie, a young woman from rural Minnesota who moves to the big city of Chicago in search of a better life. From the very first pages, Dreiser captures the excitement and naivety that comes with starting a new life in the city, as Carrie is immediately seduced by the bright lights and the promise of glamour and success.What makes Carrie such a fascinating character is her普通rural upbringing and her subsequent rise to fame and fortune. She is not a conventional heroine; she is not particularly virtuous or kind, nor is she particularly intelligent or talented. She is, however, exceedinglyambitious and determined to claw her way to the top, no matter the cost.What I found most intriguing about Carrie's character is her complete lack of guilt or remorse. She is not burdened by any sense of morality or righteousness; her only concern is her own happiness and success. This single-minded determination propels her forward, leading her to make some startling decisions that would be unthinkable for most characters in literature.The narrative also explores themes of social class and the role of society in shaping individuals' lives. Carrie's rise from poverty to affluence, and her subsequent fall from grace, is a commentary on the arbitrary nature of social status and the lengths people will go to in order to claw their way into the upper echelons of society.The writing style in Sister Carrie is also noteworthy. Dreiser's use of naturalism means that the story is told with a minimum of embellishment, focusing instead on the raw and unvarnished truth of Carrie's experiences. This style lends the narrative a gritty authenticity that fully immerses the reader in Carrie's world.In conclusion, Sister Carrie is a masterful exploration of human nature and the lengths we will go to in order to fulfill our dreams and desires. It is a searing portrayal of one woman's journey through the labyrinthine complexities of urban life and the price she pays for her ambitions. It is a novel that will stay with you long after you have finished reading it. Highly recommended.。
_嘉丽妹妹_的欲望分析
摘要：《嘉丽妹妹》是由美国著名小说家西奥图·德莱塞编写的一部以欲望为主线的小说。
本论文主要从两方面分析嘉丽妹妹无穷无尽的欲望：社会的影响以及嘉丽妹妹自身的原因。
同时也揭示了嘉丽妹妹这种无穷无尽的欲望在当时是非常普遍的现象。
关键词：西奥图·德莱塞；嘉丽妹妹；欲望中图分类号：I211文献标识码：A文章编号：1673-2111（2010）09-0050-021引言20世纪初期，西奥图?德莱塞是在美国文学史上一位杰出的小说家。
在那个时代，他是美国当代小说的先驱并被认为是美国现实主义的大师。
在《嘉丽妹妹》这部小说中，他摒弃了属于那个时代的胆怯斯文的传统写作风格。
相反，他独辟蹊径，描绘生活的本来面目，并揭示了社会生活中阴暗的一面。
他勇敢的攻击了美国传统的行为准则。
他的第一部小说《嘉丽妹妹》，主要基于欲望的主线，描绘了一个乡村女孩嘉丽出于对大城市物质生活的羡慕，渴望而来到了芝加哥这个大城市求生存。
她曾经忍受了找工作地艰辛，失业的无奈，疾病和贫穷的痛苦。
为了生存，她成了一名销售员埃迪?艾伯特的情妇，之后又与酒店经理劳伦斯?奥利维尔私奔。
在纽约，因为奥利维尔丢了工作，嘉丽妹妹离开了他，并成为一名女演员。
因为她抓住了一次机会，他开始变得有名，并跻身于上流社会，这意味着实现了她长久以来的梦想。
然而，在故事的结尾处，她依然一个人坐在她的摇椅里梦想着她自己的幸福。
嘉丽妹妹之所以总不能感到开心的原因就在于她一直在被欲望驱使着，这使她永远不能满足于现在的生活，总是不停的寻找下一个目标，这所有的一切都归于她的欲望。
但是为什么她的欲望总是得不到满足?是什么因素在她的欲望中让她不惜一切地去追逐？而又是什么因素促成了这一切？2嘉丽妹妹欲望的社会驱动力（1）美国的工业化和城市化在很大程度上，世纪之交由于美国的工业化和城市化，嘉丽妹妹住在城市的欲望是能够得到满足的。
如果没有社会地位，也就没有她在百老汇的成功，也就没有她不断上升的欲望。
(英语论文)嘉莉妹妹解读(英文)
A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF SISITER CARRIE《嘉莉妹妹》解读June, 2007Xiaogan UniversityAbstractSister Carrie tells the story of a small country girl Carrie who moves to Chicago to realize her “American Dream”and eventually becomes a Broadway star in New York. Despite living a luxurious life, she is lost in sprit. Reading the novel, we may easily notice Carrie’different needs and desires arising gradually and also the betrayal of traditional moral code in the process of pursuing material gain. The paper analyzes the reasons why Carrie has various needs at different stages of life, mainly based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. One is Carrie’s inner desires; the other is the outside force, including temptations of environment, cities, etc. The interaction between them makes Carrie lose herself eventually. It seems to tell people that in modern society material supplies more and more abundantly, but we should never pursue it blindly and much importance should be attached to happiness and stability created by spirit. It is essential to ponder the significance and the value of life.Key words: Sister Carrie; desire; lost; hierarchy of needs从马斯洛层次需要理论重新解读《嘉莉妹妹》摘要《嘉莉妹妹》讲述一位农村女孩嘉莉不甘贫穷来到芝加哥实现自己的“美国梦”，最终成为纽约百老汇一位著名的演员，享受奢华的物质却陷入精神迷失的故事。
嘉莉妹妹(Sister Carrie)简介
嘉莉妹妹(Sister Carrie)简介：`When a girl leaves her 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.'The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser's remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author's final version.小说描写了农村姑娘嘉莉来到大城市芝加哥寻找幸福，为摆脱贫困，出卖自己的贞操，后又凭美貌与歌喉成为歌星的故事。
作家娴熟地运用自然主义的创作手法，使作品具有极强的社会表现力。
小说的故事真正情节是这样的：嘉莉是个俊俏的农村姑娘，她羡慕大都市的物质生活来到了芝加哥谋生。
嘉莉妹妹赏析
嘉莉妹妹赏析《Sister Carrie》,writted by Theodore Dreiser, a famous realistic writer in American literature history, is a representative of realism, which describes a poor countryside girl’s life change after her arrival to Chicago. As a countryside girl, there is nothing wrong with her to pursuit rich and respectable life. She lived with Drouet just because her sister did not show much welcome to her, and also she lost her job, she was alone and helpless. She believed Drouet would marry her, but he did not, then she met Hursthood, the two were attracted by each other ,and they married. Though there were lies in this marriage ,rules of living in that world and cruel reality in life ,carrie realized her dream by herself. Some people thought carrie lived with the two men just with the purpose of better life, peacockish and low self-esteem, but facing with such terrible situation,there was nothing wrong with her making her choices.At the end of this movie, carrie ,among the upper classes, still felt lonely when she was around by luxurious furniture, all of which push us to think about our lifes, our dreams ,things we catched, things we lost and so on .Anyway this movie is inspirational to some extent, it teaches us how to exist when facing cruel reality.In writing techniques,we know Dreiser was a realistic writer, and 《sister carrie》was born in naturalism mature period.In thiswork ,the naturalism style was obvious among words and scenes.This work reflected thoroughly that different people have different mindsets ,suffer different situations when taken up by desire and profit. It also discussed instinct desire and environment affecton individual destiny,which was full of amorality and rules ofnature survival of the fittest.。
AnalysisofSisterCarrie’scharacter嘉莉妹妹性格分析
AnalysisofSisterCarrie’scharacter嘉莉妹妹性格分析Analysis of Sister Carrie’s character“Sister Carrie” is the first novel of famous American novelist Theodore Dreiser in the 19th century. It is also a remarkable naturalist one of his works. Carrie is the major character of this book. The story took place in the United States in the late 19th century, when the emerging industrial and commercial city were rising. There was a large number of rural population pouring into the city. Carrie, an eighteen years old, smart and simple girl, in order to get rid of poverty, she took on a train to Chicago with only four dollars. However, the reality broke her dream. She became the mistress of the salesman. Then she met a hotel manager, Hurstwood, who was attracted to Carrie’s simplicity and beauty. Later he stole the money from the hotel, and deceived Carrie to make her elope with him to New York. In New York, Hurstwood lost the money, and he couldn’t find a job because of steal. Carrie had to find a job as an actress to earn their livings, then she became a famous actress and squeezed into the upper class. She abandoned Hurstwood and pushed him unconsciously to despair and death. Although she owned the fame, she felt very lonely.In my opinion, Carrie is an innocent, simple, hard-working and romantic girl. Also she is realistic, enterprising but vainglorious.First, her simplicity and naivete. She is easy to be moved by man’s complaisance. On the train to Chi cago she met Drouet, and when she got off the train, Drouet offered to help her take the package. She said,”very kind of you.” and felt that it was very lucky to get care in strange place. Carrie didn’t knowDrouet was a person who liked to be adored by women and make them happy. When Carrie couldn’t find job after an illness, she met Drouet again. He invited Carrie to dinner and gave her 20 dollars to buy clothes. Carrie felt ashamed and refused him, but she accepted at last under the lure of money. Then she thought Drouet was a generous and good person, but she didn’t know he was only a man who took the pursuit ofwomen for fun. (洪艺帆)Second, she is diligent and enterprising.Carrie’s diligence is shown principally in her work. When she first arrived in Chicago and the next day, she went out to find a job. For running all day, she finally found a job that pays four point five dollars a week in a shoes factory. Though it was low-paid, long working hours, and poor working conditions, she endured that. After she became the mistress of Drouet, who belongs to the Masonic, Carrie tried to improve herself in taste. And at that time, the Masonic was performing a fund-raising play. In order to act the heroine, Carrie practiced at home every day. She knew that if she wanted to success, she had to hardworking and finally she performed this role successfully.Hurstwood lured Carrie to New York and they lived together. Carrie first was a housewife, but when Hurstwood was unemployment and stayed at home, she had to go out to look for a job to change the situation which was getting embarrassing. Then she worked in a choir as a humble chorus actor. But she never gave up hope and made great effort in living a better life, she eventually became more and more popular. Without her diligence and gumption, Carrie could not get success at last.Third, she is romantic and practical. Her romance reflected in her fantasy of life and emotion, she imagined that she willeventually be paid off and her hardworking will not be wasted. When she got her first job, she fantasied that a happy life is waiting for her. But her fantasy soon shattered, she lost her job.The romance is also reflected in her emotional fantasies, her first fantasy is that she and Drouet would get married, and later fantasy is that Hurstwood and she would be happy together, but both of them are shattered. After she became famous, she still was not happy. So she gradually became practical. When Hurstwood was unemployed, she lefthim and tried to find her position. She is romantic because she does not understand that social competition is brutal, sinister; she is practical because she learned that only by working hard can she live a wanted life.（惠宝琴）Fourth, Carrie is a Woman with strong vanity and desire for material, which contributed to her make succeeds in the future. Her heart is filled with the desire of wear and beauty. When she went to the department store to look for a job, Carrie was always attracted by trinkets, jewelry and so on. She wanted to wear all the jewelry on her body and desire to have them all. At the same time, she was eager to dress beautiful to show off her in here. “What a happy thing it is”! And it displayed her pursuit of fame and fortune. However, It is precisely that this vanity makes her not satisfied with her present situation, which made her out of the circle of her own lives and, ultimately, she met with success and got the fame and gain what she wanted.Fifth, Carrie's independence is not her willing，but is forced out. She came to Chicago to live with her brother-in-law and sister’s home and had to look for a job by herself. But when she got a job, she must pay for meals to her sister. But she was not welcomed by the families after she was unemployment, theysuggest her to return home. And then at that Carrie she fall in love with Drouet, but after a short while she breaking up and to find a job again. Later she was lured to New York by Hurstwood, Carrie not satisfied the present situation and she make great effort to find jobs, after failing many times and tried several,she finally became the main star of the Broadway.From the above analysis, we know that Carrie is an innocent single, Pure, hard-working, romantic and realistic, carefully compare good but vanity compared with the strong independent women. After reading the work, I tastethe author has two intention. On the one hand, I understand the author in order to praise the men who are similar to Carrie that making a wonderful achievement in a highly competitive society through effort. On the other hand, the author want to reflect the social reality. Though the live of Carrie, it is reflect the social scene and the status situation from the side. （苗悦）。
书评,嘉莉妹妹
Book Report on Sister CarrieSister Carrie is a novel written by American writer Theodore Dreiser. This novel tells us that a young rural girl Carrie came to Chicago alone to pursue her American Dream. Sitting on the train, she felt excited at the sight of the large number of tall buildings. On the train, she met a salesman named Derouet and exchanged each other’s addresses. Carrie arrived at her sister’s home and found a job. But unfortunately, when winter came, Carrie got sick and lost her first job. After she lost her job, she had no ability to pay the rent to her sister. She was so hopeless that she thought about going back to her hometown. At that time, she met Derouet again. Deroute was attracted by her beauty and innocence so he lent her money to buy fashion clothes. Carrie accepted Deroute and lived with him. When Derouet invited his friend Hurstwood to have dinner, Carrie fell love with Hurstwood who was a married man. Meanwhile, Hurstwood loved Carrie deeply in heart.During Derouet going out to work, Carrie started dating with Hurstwood frequently. In order to be with Carrie, Hurstwood stolen the win shop’s business money and cheated Carrie into escaping with him to New York. In New York, Hurstwood and Carrie rent a flat where they live as George and Carrie Wheeler. Hurstwood bought a minority interest in a saloon and, at first, is able to provide Carrie with a satisfactory life. But not long ago, Hurstwood’s business failed and he was not able to find a new job. Therefore, Carrie had to go out for finding a job to support their life. After going through many troubles, she became a super star. At last, Carrie thought Hurstwood was no longer the handsome, powerful, polite manager of his Chicago days and able to support her so she left him. Finally, Hurstwood became a beggar and ended his life with killing himself.After reading this novel, I thought a lot. Carrie, such an ordinary rural girl, had her own American Dream. She had her own desire and pursuit that she wanted to make a large number of fortune and became a rich person. In the story, she had a little money left after paying for living expenses to her sister. But this could not prevent her from resisting the lure of fineries, fashion shoes, brilliant handbags and the jewelers. In her eyes, all these things were shining brightly behind the glass cupboard. She dreamed that one day she could wear all of them, jogging gracefully into the most luxurious hotel with focused sights of admiration. The prosperous parties, lights, dinners, theatres attracted her. Deep in her idea, there was an unconscious desire to hold the prosperity. Her view to money was “Money, something everybody else has and I must get. But just because of these material desires, the former innocent and nice girl became more ambitious. On the contrary, when she possessed s lot of money and reputation, she lost her happiness and the pure heart. Although she became a star, Carrie finally realized the so-called “upper-class social life” was empty and could not find the true meaning of a happy life. She felt that she had fallen into the hell of loneliness and desolation. What more Carrie wanted? Carrie is a typical victim in the forceful American world. As a wisp in the wind, she moved by every breath ofpassion, acting by her will and by her instinct, only to retrieve by the other, falling by one, only to rise by the other—a creature of incalculable variability.It is not the evil leads us to the wrong way, but the desire for the better things. We should be easy to be satisfied and thus we can live a happy life. Actually, it will never wrong for a person to pursue a life with high standard and quality. But the pursuit of material life is not the destination. We should have a meaningful life with some secret friends, a happy family and our responsibilities.I have to say that the typical character “Carrie ”does exist not only in America but all around the world, including China . More and more people from the countryside flood into the city. They all try to be part of the city. Especially the young females who are very charming, take advantage of their beauty to attract the men who are very rich or have great power in some fields. However, their relations or marriages are founded on the financial issues rather than the true love. So they can not be long-lasting and steady. Finally, what they have to face is to say goodbye to each other after they have hurt each other seriously .With the development of the economy, these phenomena have become a tendency that we can not prevent. Even so, we really hope these “Carries” can keep a clearly mind when they are in front of the wealth.Nowadays, there are a lot of things attracting us, resisting our thoughts and behaviors. In my eyes, the pursuit of material is not the essential of life. In fact, life is far more important and meaningful than the material. We should understand the true meaning of life. And never sell our soul just for having a rich and extravagant life. We must be upright, brave, honest and stick to our dreams and be ourselves forever.In this world, if want to do something successfully, we have to pay something precious and this also requires courage. Everyone would like to have a prosperous life, but this king of life is impossible for everyone.The pursuit of material is inevitable, but it is not a panacea. Having a wealth of it, we can live well; otherwise, we also can live well. Don not blind our hearts because of material interests. Do not give up mental pursuit because of the pursuit of material interests.。
Sister Carrte主题分析
• The Author • Summary • Themes
The Author
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (/ˈdra ɪsər, -zər/;[1] August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.
Themes
• • • • • • American Dream Change and Transformation Choices and Consequences Class Conflict Identity Sex
American Dream
• Each of Dreiser's characters in Sister Carrie search for their own "American Dreams" —Carrie is filled with the expectations of acquiring the finer things in life — Drouet pursues the other appointments that represent his dream, such as a beautiful woman to adorn his arm and his own home.
sister carrie英文评价
sister carrie英文评价
《Sister Carrie》是一本描绘了美国梦破碎的小说，以女主人公卡丽·梅伯尔的视角，展示了19世纪末20世纪初的美国社会现实。
这本小说以其深刻的现实主义和自然主义风格，揭示了社会底层人民的苦难和挣扎，以及个人在追求梦想过程中的无奈和困境。
首先，小说中的卡丽·梅伯尔是一个充满梦想和野心的年轻女子，她从乡村来到大城市寻求更好的生活，但却发现自己陷入了无尽的困境。
在追求梦想的过程中，她不得不面对残酷的现实，最终梦想破灭，陷入了悲剧的结局。
其次，小说中通过对卡丽·梅伯尔和其他人物的描写，展示了当时美国社会的各种问题和矛盾。
例如贫富差距、性别歧视、道德沦丧等问题，都在小说中得到了深刻的揭示和批判。
此外，小说中的自然主义风格也是其重要特点之一。
作者通过对人物和环境的描写，揭示了自然和人类命运之间的联系和互动。
这种自然主义风格使得小说更加生动和真实，同时也让读者更加深入地理解了当时的社会现实。
总的来说，《Sister Carrie》是一本非常值得一读的小说，它不仅揭示了当时美国社会的各种问题和矛盾，也展现了人性的复杂和悲剧。
同时，小说中的自然主义风格和深刻的现实主义手法也使得它成为了一部文学经典。
Analysis of sister carrie
Analysis of sister carrie ’characteristicIntroductionSISTER CARRIE is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. It was first printed in 1900 but publication was held up until 1912 because its realism and alleged immorality were judged likely to give offense. The book is talk about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. This novel deeply influenced later 20th-century writers, it has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels." Living in a poor and intensely religious family,Dreiser had a very unhappy childhood.A world of jungle where "kill or to be killed" was the law can be found in Dreiser's fictions.In Sister Carrie Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moralstandards.Sister Carrie best embodies Dreiser's naturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance,a few extraodinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive,unsuccessfully,to find meaning and purpose for their existence.Carrie,as one of such,senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status andmaterial comfort.IIoutline: Main PlotThe novel begins with Carrie boarding a train for Chicago. She is going to live with her sister in the city and find a job there. Things do not work out well, so when Charles H. Drouet, a salesman, offers to look after her, She accepts his offer. Carrie finds her life with Charles quite pleasing, he buys her new clothes and Charles her to the theatre.同居But when Carrie meets Drouet‘s friend, George W. Hurstwood, she finds him more elegant and becomes engaged to Hurstwood too. is a wealthy man with a good reputation who makes a bad decision that forces him to leave Chicago in haste. By telling a lie he manages to take Carrie with him and together they go to New York. Carrie is a woman who wants a good home and money to buy the things she wants, so when George does not live up to her expectations, she leaves him. Carrie manages to establish a career and a name as an actress while George becomes unemployed and poor.At last,he was died.。
《sister carrie》赏析 (自动保存的)
《Sister Carrie》The author of the book is Theodore Dreiser, a famous realistic writer in Amaican literature history .Realism follows the rule of nature “survival of fittest”.《Sister Carrie》is a representative of realism which describes a poor countryside girl′s life change after her arrival to Chicago.However ,cruel reality makes Carrie feel lonely and unhappy.Then she cohabited with Drouet,a young playboy ,Drouet offered her a easier life .Later,she married with Hrustwood ,who had married.They didn′t have a better life in New York. after they spent the money Hurstwood stole from his ex-wife .At the end of the book,Hrustwood died in a shabby little hotel,and Carrie became a famous star and be in high social classes. Lost the job in shoe-making factory is just the turning point in Carrie′s life ,the turning point of her final success and tragedy.To survie she had to rely on someone .On the surface, writer is describing Carrie′s miserable suffering telling readers that is always very hard for woman .However ,to explore the deep meaning .Carrie is just a representative of the people from working-class who are oppressed by the capitalist .Dreiser shows sympathy to them and reveals the social contradictions.Carrie′s success is driven by dream and money.She wants to change her destiny she is eager to climb into the high social class.No matter how pimping you are ,dream is important and essential to future success because dream or ambution has the power to drive you forward.It is right to pursue for material life , but not everything,In fact it is never wrong to pursue for high standard and high class life.。
嘉莉妹妹与美国梦 Sister Carrie and American Dream
ha嘉莉妹妹与美国梦Sister Carrie and American DreamAbstractTheodore Dreiser, an American writer, shows the readers an actual American society, which is maintained by money in his novels. On the other hand, Dreiser also offers a mode about struggle through his stories for the poor. He wants to inspire the poor to struggle for better material lives, which shows the activeness of Dreiser’s novels. In this article, the author gives a brief introduction of Dreiser’s life, introduces American dream, and expound that the process of American dream and the American dream with a deep Root in America .by analyzy the two main characters in Sister Carrie. The article explains that in the money-oriented America, man wants to better himself instinctively or is driven by the environment to realize the American dream, yet the results are tragic. From the analysis the author illustrates futility of the American dream.It is concluded that Sister Carrie lighten the futility of the American dream. As well as encourage for the poor to struggle wealth and rank in society.Key Words: Sister Carrie, the American ream, Theodore Dreiser内容摘要美国作家西奥多·德莱塞通过一系列作品向读者展示了一个充满赤裸裸金钱关系的美国社会。
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With Drouet
• She encounters Drouet, who meets Carrie on the train. And he is attracted to her beauty and manner. • He persuades her to leave Minnie and move in with him. She does it. • When Drouet introduces Carrie to Hurstwood, her appearance has improved considerably.Plot SummaryRelationship
Minnie (her sister)
Drouet (a travelling salesman)
Carrie
Lora (a less famous actress)
Hurstwood (a manager of a pub)
With Minnie
• After a few years, the saloon's landlord terminates the partnership. • Too arrogant to accept those jobs available to him, His savings are running out soon. • He humiliatingly urges Carrie to economize. • He ultimately becomes a beggar. Reduced to standing in line for bread and charity, he commits suicide.
• Dissatisfied with the rural life, young Carrie takes the train to Chicago, to find Minnie. • Carrie takes a job in a factory. However, she is shocked by the coarse workers, and the dirty conditions. • She senses Minnie's disapproval of her interest in recreational opportunities, particularly the theater.
With Lora
• Carrie turns to theaters for employment and becomes a chorus girl, soon rises to small speaking roles, and makes a new friend Lola, who urges Carrie to move in with her. • Carrie achieves stardom, but finds that money and fame do not satisfy her longings or bring her happiness and that nothing will.
With Hurstwood
• Hurstwood, unhappy with and distant from his family, becomes infatuated with Carrie, and soon they start a secret affair. • The affair is uncovered. • Hurstwood steals a lot of cash of the resort. Then he lures Carrie onto a train and escapes to New York City. • In New York, He buys a minority interest in a saloon and, at first, is able to provide Carrie with a satisfactory standard of living. • However, He abandons his fine manners toward Carrie.