西奥多·德莱塞

• After the elopement with Hurstwood and the difficult life ,she became a star at a theater ,got the upper reaches of society and realize her dream .But she felt that life is empty and can’t find the ture meaning of life .
Works
• Sister Carrie • Jennie Gerhardt • Trilogy of Desire (1900) 《嘉莉妹妹》 (1911) 《珍妮姑娘》 《欲望三部曲》
The Financier (1912) 《金融家 》 The Titan (1914) 《巨人》 The Stoic (posthumously ) (1945)《斯多葛》 • The ‘Genius’ (1915) 《天才》 • An American Tragedy (1925)《美国的悲剧》
• In 1892, married Sara. White , but their married life wasn’t happy, even They have been separated since 1909, they never officially divorced . • In 1910, he qu源自文库t job and became a professional writer. In 1945, joined in the United States Communist party , and on December passed away .
Sister Carrie
• Carrie is a beautiful rural girl .She envied material life in metropolis and came to Chicago to make a living . • Grim reality shattered her dream .In desperation ,she has done a salesman Drouet’s mistress and later became the hotel manager Hurstwood’s mistress.
COMMENTS
• 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 and material comfort.
西奥多·德莱塞 西奥多 德莱塞
Theodore Dreiser
商英七班 马雯雯
Brief Introduction
• Writer, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Raised in poverty and in a German-speaking environment, he was a Catholic, he left home for Chicago at age 16. • After a period of odd jobs and a year at the University of Indiana, he became a Midwestern newspaper reporter and, in New York after 1894, a magazine feature writer.
THE END THANK YOU !
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) 郎心 如铁
1952年USA出品，由 Montgomery Clift， Elizabeth Taylor主演，导演是乔治· 史迪文思 .根据作家Theodore Dreiser的小说《An American Tragedy 》改编。大意 是一个聪明的有计谋的男人与两个女人之间的瓜 葛，涉及美艳，谋杀。 导演为此获当年奥斯卡最佳导演奖，本片还获得 最佳改编剧本，最佳摄影共三项 奥斯卡。