sister_carrie

Background
The novel reflected the American experience guided by the developing capitalist economy. In the process of this development, thousands of rural Americans rushed to the cities to find jobs and to build themselves new lives and identities. Sister Carrie captures the excitement of that experience.
从作品本身来看,嘉莉妹妹是一个天真单纯、 勤奋、浪漫而现实、心地比较善良，有进取 心但虚荣心较强的独立女性。
First, her naivete and simplicity
第一, 她的天真单纯
She is easy to move by heterosexual [hetərə'sekʃuəl] complaisance and sweet words.
嘉莉是一个虚荣心很强的女人,这种虚荣心 导致了她成为男人的牺牲品,同时也促使她
Fifth: her independence. 第五, 她的独立性。 Carrie's independence is not spontaneous，but is forced out. 嘉莉的独立性不是自发的,而是被逼出 来的。
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser （ 1871～1945）
秦阳
2012061150
物质=成功=幸福 ？ 物质与精神、爱情？ 原则 VS 现实
金钱=一切 ？ 没有金钱，还会有爱情 吗？
Content
1Backgr ound informat ion
2 The theme
3Charact er analysis
她的浪漫体现在她对生活和情感的幻想中, 她幻想自己终究会“得到回报,她的辛勤劳 动不会白费
Fourth, her vanity
第四, 她的虚荣心
Carrie is a woman with strong vanity and desire for material and just because of this vanity and material desire led her to become a victim of the two men-Drouet and Hurstwood, also contributed to her success in the future.
她很容易被异性的殷勤和甜言蜜语打 动
Second. Her diligence and gumption 第二, 她的勤奋，有进取心 Carrie’s diligences find expression in her work. 嘉莉的勤奋主要表现在她的工作上。
Third, the romantic and realistic. 第三, 浪漫而现实。 Her romantic reflected in her indulging in the fantasy of living and affection, "she imagined that she will eventually get back"" her hard work will not be wasted."
But when Carrie meets Drouet‘s friend, George W. Hurstwood, she finds him more elegant and becomes engaged to Hurstwood too. (认识经理) George 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. (与经理私奔)

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Charles同居 )
Charles H. Drouet
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an obliging traveling salesman. Carrie meets on the train to Chicago. with means, will Carrie deception
George W. Hurstwood
a well-to-do, sophisticated man who manages Hannah and Hogg‘s resort. A promising ,affectionately man。 Hurstwood, a man with a respectable life and money, who still wants more and for that reason commits a crime.
Carrie
Βιβλιοθήκη Baidu
Drouet
Hurstwood
对嘉莉妹妹的性格分析 From the work itself, Sister Carrie is an innocent, simple, hard-working, romantic and realistic, the heart is relatively good, aggressive but vanity is a strong independent women.
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Main Plot
The 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.(去芝加哥 谋生)