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Sister Carrie SummaryCaroline Meeber, known as Carrie, leaves her home at age eighteen and takes the train to Chicago. The man sitting behind her on the train, named Drouet, starts talking to her. Carrie soon becomes interested in him due to his fine clothing and manners. Upon arriving in Chicago she says goodbye to him, but not before she has given him her address.Carrie meets her sister Minnie Hanson and moves into one of the rooms in Minnie's apartment. Mr. Hanson arrives home that night but does not pay too much attention to her. Carrie soon realizes that the Hansons expect her to find a job and pay them rent. As far as they are concerned, she is supplemental income. After the weekend she enters the commercial part of the city and starts looking for a job. Being naturally timid, Carrie is frightened of entering the factories and shops and asking for a job, the result being that she is not hired that day. After several days of searching she finds employment in a shoe factory.Carrie works hard at her job, but discovers that the salary is too low for her to pay rent and purchase clothes for the winter. She soon falls ill from the cold and takes several days to recover. Assuming that she has lost her new job, Carrie returns to the streets in the desperate hopes of finding new employment, but becomes frustrated when nothing is available.Almost ready to head home, Carrie accidentally meets Drouet on the street. He kindly offers her a meal and takes her to a fine restaurant. After much insisting he convinces her to meet him again the next day and presses twenty dollars into her hand. Carrie is loath to take the money and afraid that Minnie will find out where she got it, so instead of spending the money she decides to return it to Drouet. She meets him again the next day and he takes her out shopping, buying her an entire wardrobe in the process.Carrie is so elated by the way he treats her that she agrees to allow him to rent an apartment for her. She sneaks her things out of Minnie's house, leaving only a short note behind, and takes off. Things go well with Drouet for a while.Drouet then introduces Carrie to his friend Hurstwood, the manager of one of the top bars in the city. Hurstwood is far more refined and elegant than Drouet, and soon he comes over to play cards with Carrie and Drouet. He next offers to take them to the theater. When Drouet is away, Hurstwood begins to stop by the apartment and woo Carrie, finally getting her to kiss him while on a buggy ride. He falls madly in love with her and starts to think of getting her to run away with him.Drouet, unaware of what is going on between Carrie and Hurstwood, returns to Chicago for several weeks. He is asked to find a girl to perform in his Mason's lodge play and asks Carrie if she would do it. She agrees, and Hurstwood get together all the top people in the city to watch her perform. Carrie puts on a stunning performance as a result of Drouet's support for her, but Hurstwood starts to become insanely jealous when he sees them together.Hurstwood's family life falls apart rapidly as he has been neglecting his wife in order to see Carrie.She finally realizes what is going on and demands that he give her money. Meanwhile, Drouet has also discovered that Carrie has been spending far more time with Hurstwood then he ever thought. Drouet angrily walks out on Carrie, and Hurstwood foolishly fights with his wife, not realizing that his wife has the entire property in her name. She then files for divorce, hires a detective, and locks him out of the house.Hurstwood goes to his workplace and spends his nights at a local hotel. One evening he is locking up the bar and discovers that the safe is unlocked. He pulls out over ten thousand dollars in cash and accidentally locks the safe before he can put the money back. Without thinking he takes the cash and rushes to Carrie's apartment. He tells her that Drouet has had an accident and that they need to go to the hospital. With that lie he gets her onto a train heading to Detroit and from there to Montreal. Carrie is upset and furious with him, but passively does nothing to resist.From Montreal they head to New York City where Hurstwood rents an apartment for them. He has sent back most of the money he stole while in Montreal in order to avoid prosecution, keeping only thirteen hundred in order to establish his own business. He soon finds a bar looking for a business partner and buys a one-third stake for one thousand. Things are fine until the owner of the land that the bar is on decides to kick them out and build an office building. Hurstwood only has seven hundred dollars and struggles to find new employment.He and Carrie are soon forced to move into a smaller apartment. Failing to find work, Hurstwood slowly degenerates into idleness. He takes up some gambling and loses over a hundred dollars in one night. Carrie loses interest in him as a person and starts considering her other alternatives. Things get progressively worse until Hurstwood does not even leave the apartment anymore, preferring to sit around in his old clothes.When Hurstwood is almost out of money, Carrie decides that she will have to get a job to support them. After a few days she is given a spot in the chorus line of a Broadway show. Her salary is barely enough for them to live on, but Hurstwood scrapes by. She is soon promoted to lead the chorus line and later to an even better paying dancing position. Carrie refuses to tell Hurstwood about her success because she need the extra money to purchase clothes for herself.Hurstwood takes one last job when the trolley car workers go on strike. He applies for a position and becomes a scab, a man who works when everyone else is striking. However, an angry mob soon manages to stop his car and after being shot at he decides to give up and head home. Carrie luckily is given a speaking part one day and at that point decides to leave Hurstwood in order to live with an actress friend of hers. She moves out while he is taking a walk.The rest of the novel traces Carrie's rise and Hurstwood's fall. He soon loses the apartment and is forced to become a homeless beggar who stays in cheap hotels in the Bowery part of town. Carrie meanwhile is given a silent role, but plays it so well that she becomes an overnight star and signs a contract paying her a hundred and fifty dollars a week, an exorbitant sum for her.Drouet moves to New York and tries to reestablish his relationship with Carrie, but she brusheshim off. Hurstwood, in despair, commits suicide by gassing himself with methane in his hotel room one night. His wife and daughter take a voyage to Rome with a wealthy young man that his daughter has married while his dead body is carted away on a ship. Carrie meanwhile has become unhappy with her state in the world, wishing that she could perform drama rather than comedy.。

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.

sister carrie人物Charles。drouet形

sister carrie人物Charles。

drouet形嘉莉/Caroline Meeber/Carrie：美丽聪明的女主角。

到芝加哥谋生，开始的她爱慕虚荣、羡慕富贵的生活而不愿当艰苦的工人，为了生存先后成为了德鲁埃和赫斯特伍德的情人。

后受到赫斯特伍德的欺骗两人私奔到了纽约市一起生活，在他找不到工作后，她凭借个人的才能成为一名出色的舞台演员。

德鲁埃/Charles H. Drouet：男配角，推销员。

秉性温和、沉静、宁静，富有自信心，喜欢对女人献殷勤。

最初是在火车上认识了嘉莉，后来帮助了她并与之同居。

但她后来同赫斯特伍德私奔到了纽约。

明妮/Minnie Hanson：嘉莉的姐姐，汉森的老婆，育有一个婴儿，居住在芝加哥西范伯伦街职工住宅区，在一家纺织厂工作。

汉森/Sven Hanson：明妮的丈夫，嘉莉的姐夫，父亲是瑞典人，他沉默寡言爱看报纸，在一家牲畜圈养场当冷藏车清洁工。

赫斯特伍德/George W. Hurstwood：男主角，酒店经理。

老于世故，举止温和，通达善变。

在认识嘉莉后，很快就陷入热烈的爱和情欲中。

后来到了同老婆将要离婚的地步后，他偷了酒店的钱与嘉莉私奔到了纽约。

然而到了纽约这样繁华的大都市后他却始终无法立足，无法找到一份称心的工作，境遇越来越差，嘉莉最后选择离开了他。

最终他沦为乞丐，自杀身亡。

朱丽娅/Julia Hurstwood：赫斯特伍德的太太。

冷酷自私，好嫉妒和虚荣，一心追求更高的社会地位，跟丈夫彼此没有深厚的感情。

杰西卡/Jessica Hurstwood：赫斯特伍德跟太太的女儿。

娇生惯养，与母亲一样好虚荣，没有孝心，很少将父亲放在心上。

乔治/George Hurstwood：赫斯特伍德跟太太的小儿子。

万斯夫妇/The Vances：富有的商人夫妇，嘉莉和赫斯特伍德在纽约时结识的邻居。

万斯太太喜好狂欢、应酬交际和看戏，嘉莉与她成为朋友。

艾姆斯/Robert Ames：万斯夫妇的侄子，来自印地安纳州的英俊年青的知识分子，是嘉莉心仪喜欢的对象。

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• Kyra Markham (1891–1967) was an actress, figurative painter and printmaker.
Career
1892: wrote for the Chicago Globe newspaper and then the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which prepared a lot for his later writing.
no works
1903: began writing again, working for senveewraslpapers
newspapers
1911: Jennie Gerhardt «珍妮姑娘»
In the next 15 years his writing career reached a peak, when he finished most of his main works.
Father: a German immigrant；a Catholic farmer;
move to America to escape the conscription(征兵); treat children severely, only to make them distant from him.
and squalor; two of his sisters were seduced; His older brother: the popular songwriter, Paul Dresser a pattern for Dreiser.
Education
before 1889
graduate from high school in Warsaw; work on his own

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.。

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(2)As a naturalist, he developed the capacity for photographic and relentless observation, thereby truthfully reflecting the society and people of his time. Nearly all of his main characters are based on real people. Besides the fictional portrayal of real persons, Dreiser was also faithful to reality in the description of his novels’ environmental and social backgrounds. (3) His narrative method is natural and free from artifice. Instead of winning readers with a trick of plot, he preferred to influence them with powerful narrative based on large quantities of material and detailed descriptions. He set out to record life as he saw it and
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.

Sister Carrie读后感

SisterCarrie读后感SisterCarrie是美国著名小说家西奥多·德莱塞（TheodoreDreiser，1871—1945）的作品。

这部写于1900年的小说在国内好像比较小众，远比同时期的很多英美文学作品落寞得多。

本书所蕴含的某些“精神”在很多社会都会受到争议。

即便在美国也是如此。

毕竟在当时年代，女人的社会地位是非常低的，而且社会对于婚姻关系的看法也比较保守。

但小说的女主Carrie竟然在婚前与男人同居，并与已婚男人私通，后来还成为一位著名演员，实在是太挑战人们的三观了。

所以小说的初版并不算顺利，而且删去了大量的两性描写。

当然，也有的人坚持认为，这本小说突破了常规，体现了女性的解放。

其实放在百年后的现代社会，女主的这些“不道德”行为似乎也算不得什么稀罕事。

很多小说之所以能够得以流传，一个重要的原因就在于，它突破了时间和空间的界限，无论放在什么年代，什么地域，读者都能从中看到自己所置身社会的影子，能从中看到自己，以及自己身边的人和事。

Carrie不过是一个来自美国小镇的姑娘，她18岁去芝加哥寻梦，希望能够在大城市找到体面的工作，过上美好生活，穿上漂亮衣服，住上大房子。

那么女主是怎样逐步实现梦想的呢？她先是去投靠芝加哥的姐姐和姐夫，但到了以后才发现他们家竟然简陋不堪，生活也拮拮据据。

她不想过这样的日子，便试图去找份好点的工作。

但没有技能，也没有工作经验，找了一圈都没人要她，最后只能去做个类似于织布女工的工作，却发现工作环境太压抑，还要承受潜在的性骚扰，很想放弃。

正在此时，Carrie的人生出现了转折。

她在来芝加哥的火车上所遇到的一个男人让她跟自己一起生活。

于是女主便离开了姐姐姐夫的住所，过起了非婚富太太的生活。

用现代话说就是被包养了。

这个“包养”她的男人是个销售员，挣钱不少，对女主也是全心全意，但就是迟迟不肯跟她结婚。

理由也很简单，他想先做单大生意，然后风风光光地娶她。

但女主不愿意啊。

(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。

sister carrie 嘉莉妹妹

Plot Summary
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The analysis of main characters
Caroline Meeber
Charles H. Drouet
George W. Hurstwood
Caroline Meeber
-----“北漂” and “小三”
1. A young dream chaser 2. Immature: both in career and love 3. Symbolizes the people who wants to find a job in big cities nowadays
Mother: from a farming community; illiterate and
earnest; a Christian；even-tempered and good natured.
Brothers/Sisters: drift into drunkness, promiscuity
1947: The Stoic «斯多葛» , published after his death
(The protagonist: Frank Cowperwood, a businessman, his experience from success to failure)
• Dust jacket of early edition of An American Tragedy, published by Horace Liveright's Boni & Liveright, 1926
• Kyra Markham (1891–1967) was an actress, figurative painter and printmaker.

美国文学Sister Carrie英文(课堂PPT)

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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】

It was dusk and Carrie had neglected to light the lamp.
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

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。

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.。

《嘉莉妹妹》中嘉莉的性格分析

An Analysis of the Personalities of Sister Carriein Sister Carrie《嘉莉妹妹》中嘉莉的性格分析摘要《嘉莉妹妹》是美国小说家西奥多·德莱塞的第一部长篇小说, 嘉莉妹妹是文中的主角，作品揭露出一位在现实社会生活中温柔，善良，美丽的社会乡村少女在资本主义社会环境中转变成为独立，自信，聪明，优雅，有内涵的新女性，刚开始嘉莉妹妹把自己的希望寄托在男性身上，结果自己遭受了两次欺骗，到后来她认识到只有通过自己的努力才能改变自己的命运。

最终她通过自己努力和才能登上百老汇红五星舞台，成为一名大都市独立的新型女性。

本文旨在通过对嘉莉妹妹的性格分析，使读者清楚地认识到成为一名新时代的独立的女性，不能把希望依赖于别人，只有通过自己的努力才可以实现自我的价值，并最终取得成功。

同时新时代的女性首先应该在经济上独立，从而获得人格上的独立，赢得别人的尊重，而嘉莉妹妹正是通过依靠自己才成为了一名经济独立，而又有自信和内涵的新女性。

关键词：嘉莉妹妹；性格分析；性格形成原因；作者写作目的AbstractSister Carrie is written by American Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie is leading role. In the works, Sister Carrie is described as a gentle, kind-hearted, beautiful, country girl, eventually; she turns into be a independent, confident, smart, elegant, new metropolis female. In the beginning, she puts her hope on male. Unfortunately she is deceived twice by men. In the end she appears on Broadway red throne through her hard efforts and becomes a new independent metropolis female.This article, aiming at the analysis of sister Carrie’s characters, introduces readers a new independent female who can’t rely hope on anybody only through her own efforts to achieve self-value and success. At first, a new female must obtain economical independence to gain personal independence, and win the respect of others. Owning to her efforts, Sister Carrie becomes a female with financial independence, confidence and inner beauty.Key Words: Sister Carrie; character analysis; cause of formation; the writer’s writing purposeContents摘要 (I)Abstract (II)1. Introduction (1)2. The Characters of Sister Carrie (1)2.1 Innocence and Simplicity (1)2.2 The Character of Sister Carrie after Her Coming into City (2)2.2.1 Her Diligence and Gumption (2)2.2.2 Her Romantism and Realism (3)2.2.3 Her Independence and Persistence (4)2.2.4 A Forceful Woman in Life (4)3. The Reasons of the Formation of Sister Carrie’s Later Personalities (5)3.1 Internal Causes (5)3.1.1 The Backgroud of Family (5)3.1.2 Rebellious Character (6)3.2 External Causes (6)3.2.1 The Background of Capitalism and Consumerism (6)3.2.2 The Influence of Individual Experience (7)4. Defects of Sister Carrie’s Personality (7)4.1 Her Vanity (7)4.2 The Lack of Rational Education (8)5. The Writer’s purpose (9)6. Conclusion (9)Bibliography (12)Acknowledgments (13)1. IntroductionSister Carrie is the first novel written by the American novelist Theodore Dreiser When the industrial and commercial cities have been rising, a large number of rural population have poured into the city. Carrie,eighteen years old, a smart and simple girl, in order to get rid of poverty, boards on a train to Chicago with only four U.S., hoping to have a better life. However, the harsh reality breaks her dream because of her unemployment and disease. In desperation, she becomes the mistress of the salesman Chas.H.Drouet, and then she comes across a hotel manager, G.W. Hurstwood who was attracted by her simple beauty. Hurstwood lures Carrie to New York, stealing the money of the hotel. In New York, because of Hurstwood’s deteriorating economy and unemployment, Carrie is forced to find job. Then she earns their living by hard work. Finally, owing to chance, she becomes a popular actress, squeezing into the high society and abandons poor Hurstwood. Carrie is famous for her persistence and effort. But she is not happy, even feels lonely.This paper is divided into six sections. The first chapter introduces the background of Sister Carrie. The second chapter reviews the characters of Sister Carrie. At first the personalities of Sister Carrie is analyzed in the rural areas, and then the characters of Sister Carrie is analyzed in the city. The third chapter analyses the reasons of Sister C arrie’s personality’s formation. The fourth chapter tells Sister C arrie’s defects of personality.The fifth chapter analyses the writer’s intention. In the last chapter the Sister C arrie’s characters are summarized.Duing to her complicated characteristic, a few questions need to be asked. What kind of person she is? What are the causing factors to the formation of her characters? What are defects in her personality and why does the author create such a character?2. The Characters of Sister Carrie2.1 Innocence and SimplicityIn the first place, she is a brave girl.“When Sister Carrie boarded the afternoontrain for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, scrap of paper with her sister’ s address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money,”(Theodore Dreiser,1981:1-2)from the paragraph, we can see she is a courageous girl. When Sister Carrie goes out alone with little money, she is only eighteen years old. In the second place, she is easy to be moved by heterosexual complaisance and sweet words at the train for Chicago. She encounters Drouet on the train for Chicago and after getting off the train, Drouet asks for taking the package for Carrie, she says, “Very kind of you.” and feels that it is really lucky to get such a complaisant care in a strange land. Besides, at the train she gives a heterosexual stranger her address after they communicate with each other after a while without the vigilanceIn conclusion, it can be seen that Sister Carrie is brave, innocent and simple.2.2 The Character of Sister Carrie after Her Coming into city2.2.1 Her Diligence and GumptionCarrie’s diligences are found expression in the work. She goes out to find a job the next day she arrives in Chicago. For running all day, she finally finds a job in a shoes factory with a payment of five point four dollars every week. Though having to work long hours in a poor working condition with a low pay, long working hours, poor working conditions, she endures that. Later because she wears thin clothes, she gets a cold and loses her job. If she does not find a job, her sister wants to ask her to go home. But she does not give up living in Chicago; finally she becomes the mistress of Drouet. And at that time, the Masonic which Drouet belonged to is performing a “fund-raising Play”. At the meantime, the play lacks of heroine. Drouet asks Carrie to have a try, so Carrie replies to try. From that moment Carrie practices painstakingly at home every day and then it is a good choice to get rid of privation. So she knows that if she wants to succeed, she has to work hard and finally Carrie performs this role successfully. This experience lays a solid foundation for her to success in the Broadway. Hurstwood lures Carrie to New York and they lives together. Carrie is a housewife in her first time, before Hurstwood loses his job and stays at home. Theenvironment is getting increasingly embarrassment; Carrie has to go out to look for a job to do. Although she is only a humble chorus actor in a choir, then she does not give up hope and makes an effort, eventually she becomes more and more popular, enjoying a prosperous life. Without her hard work, Carrie could not have been successful at last. Her gumption is expressed in the way how she improves herself. In Chicago, Carrie learns the conversations and manners of the people in graded society.2.2.2 Her Romantism and RealismHer romance is reflected in her illusion. Her romantic fantasy is that she will eventually get back as long as she works hard. Only in this way her hard work will not be wasted. After she finds a even low-paid job, she imagines that she will be happy. Her fantasy is that she has a nice future than before—live a happy life waiting for her “For the next day Carrie indulge d in the most high-flows peculation. Her fancy plunged recklessly into privileges and amusements which would have been much more becoming had she been cradled a child of fortune. With ready will and quick mental selection she scattered her illusion four-fifty per week with a swift and graceful hand. Indeed, as she sat in her rocking-chair these several evenings before going to bed and looked out upon the pleasantly lighted street, this money cleared for its prospective possessor the way to every joy and every bauble which the heart of woman may desire. I will have a fine time, she thought”(Theodore Dreiser,1981:1-3). But her fantasy is soon shattered, and in this competitive metropolis, it is very difficult for one without any experience to find a work. Earning four point five dollars salary per week and working in poor condition are almost unbearable for her. Besides she also needs to pay her sister and brother-in-law for food. The rest of salary is not enough to offer her necessaries. Moreover her job is lost, because she is ill for three days. Her romance is also reflected in her emotional fantasies. Her first fantasy is that Chas.H.Drouet will marry her after she becomes his mistress. When she comes cross Mr.G.W.Hurstwood and lives together with him. Her second fancy is that she and Hurstwood will have an ideal combination. But the Drouet does not really want to marry her, and then the Hurstwood just avoids his wife’s outrage and rudeness to find a safe haven. Finally her emotional illusions have been shattered totally. Althoughachieving fame and fortune, she still is not happy, even Hurstwood has returned his original beauty and glory, he could not allure her. She knows that these material substances are not happiness in her own present state. Fame is not everything. She has twice been deceived by men, so that she no longer holds the magic about life and love. Her romance is because she does not understand that social competition is brutal, sinister. What’s more she does not get the people’s hearts. Her reality is because life hones church she no longer easily believes a man. Only by own efforts to live the life you want.2.2.3 Her Independence and PersistenceCarrie’s independence is not spontaneous, but is forced out. She comes to Chicago to stay with her sister and brother-in-law’s home and ha s to look for a job by herself, and then when she gets a job, she must pay the meals for her sister. After she is unemployed, she is not welcomed; they propose her to return home. At that time Carrie encounters Drouet when she is in distress, and she takes him as the last straw, which makes her abandon relations to go alone. And breaking up with Drouet, she has to find a job again. Later she is lured to New York by Hurstwood, Carrie cannot stand with poor life, and Hurstwood cannot find jobs. Their life has a problem, so she goes out again to look for a job, and tries several times. And finally she becomes a famous actress in the Broadway in a small chorus. Her persistence is embodied in searching jobs. In a prosperous city, she cannot find job after running all day. But she doesn't give up. At that time, she is only an eighteen years old. Although feeling shy and ashamed, she is full of courage to have a try. Finally, she obtains job through her efforts. In the end she becomes a famous actor and gets success through her persistence.2.2.4 A Forceful Woman in LifeCarrie dares to face the difficulties of life, and takes an optimistic attitude to face the difficulties. When she arrives in Chicago, in order to adapt to living in a flourishing city, she begins to change her mind. She does not only simply abandon the lifestyle of her mother’s generation, but also makes efforts to adapt to the new way of life in modern America. At first the initial stage of herself-fashioning, when Carrielives with her sister Minnie, she begins to focus on self-fashioning. She separates from her sister Minnie, because her sister is a traditional woman who is busy with household chores every day and seems to have lost herself, and the thought of tradition life is what Carrie wants to abandon, so Carrie would like to choose a new way of life. Carrie earns money to buy beautiful clothes for her and wants to go entertainment. She knows what kinds of life she wants. When living into the apartment with Drouet, Carrie starts to model herself in ideal. In addition to cultivate her, Carrie pays attention to the behavior and wants to be more elegant as well as more temperament. As a result, she becomes a quite charming girl. At the same time, she walks in graceful footsteps, not so heavy, she is beautiful and elegant. Eventually Mrs. Vance introduces her cousin Armstrong to Carrie; Armstrong’s thoughts have influence on Carrie about having a great degree, which makes her pursue the spiritual world from the initial simple material desires to the pursuit of art. That makes Carrie begin to realize that the pursuit of material comfort is not enough; the pursuit of spirit is the most important to her.3.The Reasons of t he Formation of Sister Carrie’s Later Personalities 3.1 Internal Causes3.1.1 The Backgroud of FamilyOrigin often leaves imprint in one’s personality or inner world. Carrie’s extreme thirst for material and her lack of rational are found a little clue in her early life in Colombia. She is afraid of returning home. Her sympathy for the poor and downtrodden people, as well as fear about the fate dating back to her father’s life mixed with complex feelings of pity and shame. Therefore, she has to be persistent in finding a job and offer fundamental life by herself. Walking in the streets of the city, she sees the clothes shabby girl and despair of those pale and shabbily dressed men; she will bit her lip with standing. Although the principle is often nagging around her ears, but it can’t save herself from her strong fear of being likely to suffer that fate. So she wants to make her every effort to achieve her goal. Carrie’s mind can’t defuse thetension of painful memories from the childhood which is most clearly seen in her relationship with men. Carrie measures their value directly whether they offer her food, shelter, clothing and pleasure within the capacity of the external factors, which is call of her nature. She continuously obtains material substances from men when she is missing something. Unfortunately she always suffers pain. Finally she reaches her dream by her efforts and independence.3.1.2 Rebellious CharacterLeaving a tearful mother, Carrie boards on train to a strange and complicated big city. We could feel tne courage of an 18 years old young girl and the heart of the rebel. With a taste prosperity of Chicago, she soon begins to resist common lifestyle of the brother-in-law. Then, just as leaving her hometown in Wisconsin, Carrie once again escapes from the residence of a brother-in-law, matting her relationship with a man’s privacy. This is the strongest hint of rebel, and also leaves a clue that she doesn’t only actualize herself, but also becomes new metropolis female.3.2 External Causes3.2.1 The Background of Capitalism and ConsumerismThe background of the novel is based on the economic condition in nineteenth century early USA dominated by agriculture. The transition from agricultural economy depending on family to capitalist economy relying on operating capitalism mainly is based on the development of industry in nineteenth century. Working out of the family is more and more prevalent. Meanwhile women at the nearest large cities search for work, which reflects an international trend. Women start to work out of the family and pursue themselves. By 1890, the national labor consists of 17% women. Thanks to capitalism and consumerism background, the traditional idea that women should pay totally attention to husband and children converts to working out of family. Sister Carrie is one of women working out of the family.Capitalist economic development relies on the rapid transfer of products from producers to consumers. The most important social changes described in the novel is from the production to consumption. On the one hand the mass retail has wider implications; on the other hand customers benefit from low prices and a wide range ofoptions. In this way the consumers are related with consumption. Particularly, Sister Carrie is a potential consumer who desires to control her fate and reach her goal. She realizes that she needs to get her dream through hard effort. So capitalism background is an indispensable element for Carrie to model a new metropolis female.3.2.2 The Influence of Individual ExperienceChicago is a city full of hope, luck and rise. At the beginning of the novel author wants to preach a concept “the city is full of cunning deception, rather than any man in Chicago attracted heroines”. Carrie looks forward to Chicago “a huge magnet, attracting people full of hope and despair from all sides”. But in fact she suffers failure at first. In Chicago, she meets a salesman Drouet and falls in love with him. She wants to be his wife and waits for a long time. In the end, she is conscious of her innocence. Drouet just regards her as a mistress, besides, Drouet is dissolute. He can’t give Sister Carrie a good future. When she is confused, she comes across Hurstwood and is attracted by him. She falls in love again; unfortunately she is deceived by Hurstwood. When she lives with Hurstwood in New York,she goes out for hunting a job. Finally she leaves Hurstwood. Fortunately, she realizes her dream by herself, and becomes a famous actress. Her independence and effort can be dated back to her experience. It helps Carrie accomplish her success.4. Defects of Sister Carrie’s Personality4.1 Her VanityCarrie is a woman with strong vanity and desire for material which leads her to become a victim of the two men-Drouet and Hurstwood, which also contributes to her success in the future. She is always yearning for clothes and Jewelry, so when she goes to the department store to look for a job, Carrie is attracted by each item whether it is cheap trinkets, or expensive jewelry. Each piece is attracted to her. She wants to wear all the jewelry and desires to have them all. That delicate slippers and stockings, trimmed with beautiful trim skirts and petticoats, all every color of the lace, ribbons, combs, and flower package, what a wonderful thing if she can have them all. Herheart is filled with the desire of possessing them. Later she lives in New York with Hurstwood in some time and once the next door neighbor－Mrs. Vance invites her to the theater. Her vanity is revealed totally by the comparisons with Mrs. Vance. Carrie thinks she is pretty enough, but when compared with Mrs. Vance, she is not pretty at all. How could Mrs. Vance have so many cute little things? Carrie feels more uncomfortable when she goes on the street with Mrs. Vance, because it is filled with strong rich and flaunted atmosphere in the street, she thinks she is incompatible in this atmosphere. The fact is that that she could never have the bright appearance like Mrs.Vance’s, which makes she feel very pain. Later she vows that she would dress more gorgeously and come here again. At the same time, she is eager to dress gorgeously to show off in public place. Carrie’s vanity is manifested in her desire for goods and the comparisons with others, and is displayed in her pursuit of fame and fortune, too. Because her vanity makes her not satisfy her present status, so that she goes out of the circle of her own life, and ultimately, she obtains success and feels that she has been looked forward to.To sum up, Carrie is to adored materials to control her desire for pursuing fame and status. Fortunately she gains success.4.2 Lack of Rational EducationCarrie is often fallen by external environment, which, especially, is reflected in her emotional affairs. She is always easily controlled by men, partly because she makes every decision depending on someone’s ideas. Partly because she is lack of education, then it is an essential factor for her to master her fate. Lacking of knowledge leads to her weakness. There is none of family education in her childhood. The only way to consult is to listen to instruction of her father who carefully explains everything. When Carrie is not able to find correct direction from her experience, her conscience is her honest and knowledgeable adviser. Carrie is not educated; she does not have chance to learn knowledge from books that is a closed garden to her. She comes to the city in order to look for the greatest happiness in life.5. The Writer’s PurposeFrom the above analysis, it is obvious to see that Carrie is an hard-working, romantic and persistent woman who is fond of pursuing fame and vanity. Certainly, what is the purpose of the author to shape such a character? There are two reasons. Firstly, in order to highlight the characteristics of naturalism, the author writes Sister Carrie that is embodied the character of Naturalistic literary. One of the purposes of shaping figure in this works is to reflect naturalistic features. The natural feature is that people need to grasp every opportunity to work hard in a competitive society in order to success. On the contrary, the author models a loser－Hurstwood. He is no longer young and capable. Eventually he makes a choice to commit suicide. This is the naturalistic Portrayal. Secondly, when Theodore Dreiser creates Sister Carrie, Darwin’s theory of evolution and survival of the fittest theory are prevailing. Consumption ideology emphasizes people on costing and occupying things. The idea of possession weakens the traditional thrift, savings, and automation ethic. When Dreiser writes Sister Carrie, American women have begun to be affected by consumerism. They begin to challenge traditional moral standards. On the one hand, they no longer believe that the responsibility of women is to help husband and teach children. On the other hand, women should stay at home to do housework. On the contrary, women think they should have their job and earn money by themselves to enjoy life.6. ConclusionThrough hard work, Carrie is turned into a successful actress from an innocent village girl. During this process Sister Carrie is shaped to a new female character. Carrie is no longer manipulated by any man. On the contrary, with an independent career, she is independent in economic, which finally helps her become an independent woman, and realizes the independence of personality. Carrie becomes brave and mature through searching for job. Her success is accompanied by performance talent and her efforts, however in this process; her consciousness hasbeen awakened at the bottom of her heart. It is reviewed by the Dreiser in his book, It is a feature for a woman to be protected, supported and loved. But the power of women is suppressed by the tradition concept. Carrie is conscious of her acting abilities by chance, but she has been accustomed to live comfortably under the male protection so as to refuse to face up to own strengths. She does not fully display her talent until she is frustrated with men. For example, when she learns that Hurstwood cheats on her and then Drouet leaves her, eventually she decides to go out looking for a job. She has needs, but she is not amenable to be tricked or to be bribed by any men. She is going to support herself. This concept helps Carrie develop women’s self-awakening. Furthermore, Carrie finds job in the cinema. It is compared with former jobs, even though it is still not easy, she adds a lot of courage. Besides when Hurstwood is out of job, Carrie attempts to look for a job. Finally she decides to go to a play regardless of her husband’s objection. This job is twice as hard as the former, but Carrie gets a position in the chorus by her tenacity and courage .Her talent is soon recognized. Carrie begins to realize own strength in the promoting process. A man a little word, will not make her mind again. She knows men every well, which eventually creates the Sister Carrie’s image. She walks out of the small world of her family. She, among the public field, gains economic independence, which is a prerequisite for women to seek to further pursuit based on financial independence. Carrie once has previously relied on Drouet and Hurstwood to get happiness before obtaining self-reliance. She wants to marry Drouet who refuses her. Immediately, she changes her hopes on Hurstwood who turns out to be impossible. And she’s like an object, from one man to another man. Because Carrie is not economically independent, it is pointless to talk about personal independence. Eventually, Carrie becomes a famous actress and achieves her worth. She no longer needs to rely on anyone and she also gets honor. Obviously, Carrie achieves real personality independence after being economical independence.Sister Carrie eventually becomes a new woman; of course there are also limitations in her personality. However, she dares to pursue individual liberation; meanwhile she also actively seizes the opportunity to adapt to the social progress. 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《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。

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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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Although Carrie encountered many setbacks and difficulties in urban life, she ultimately found her own direction and achieved an increase in self-worth.
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Plot Overview
Carrie experiences career and emotional ups and downs in the city, gradually losing herself.
Plot development
Sister Carrie, a young rural girl, comes to a big city to pursue her dreams and a better life.
Education
Desite limited resources, Carrie's parents emphasis education She attended a local elementary school and then a high school where she excelled academically
The evolution of values
The characters in the novel constantly evolve and adjust their values as their experiences and environment change, reflecting the dynamism and plasticity of their values.

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Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie
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.