美国文学Sister Carrie英文PPT

Caroline Meeber: bright; timid; full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth
Chas.H.Drouet: a buoyant traveling salesman ; good clothes; daring; kindly familiarity
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

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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.
Words Characteristic
using lots of words to discribe the environment and human inside that to form the characters. the Naturalism of Theodore Dreiser
Characters

Caroline Meeber: bright; timid; full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth (P139) Chas.H.Drouet: a buoyant traveling salesman ;good clothes; daring;kindly familiarity (P142)
Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser . It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels." A masterwork of realism
Plot Summary

Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline Meeber(sister carrie)（P139） takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and her husband Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet(P146), a traveling salesman, who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and unspoiled manner. They exchange contact information and both off the train.