sister carrie读后感

Homework on History and Anthology of American Literature

Name 郭艺威Class 英二Tutor 董晓晔Date 5.20 Title Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser’s revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900. The book tells us a story about a girl's pursuit of better life and her lost in pursuit of it.

Carrie,a girl from a low paid family in a little countryside,pure and pretty,timid and simple,boarded the train for Chicago in order to seek for her dream.On the train,Carrie came across with Drouet,who was a charming and flashy salesman. Hurstwood,a manager and also a married gentleman,fell in love with Carrie soon after their meeting with each other.He had done and sacrificed a lot for her but finally became a begger wandering in the street while Carrie succeeded. That’s a huge irony but real thing happened meanwhile, so the ending doomed to be miserable.

I 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 realized that she never get it,just as it reads:In your rocking chair,by your window,shall your dream such happiness as you may never feel.