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There is no doubt that the city is the center of the modern life, has become a place for young people to pursue . With the rapid development of American capitalism and economic prosperity, rich material supply to stimulate the consumption , which encourages the people to desire for money and worship. Consumption ideology gradually replaced the mainly production of ideology. This kind of consumption ideology emphasis on cost and material, it has weakened the thrift, saving, control the traditional moral standards.
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At the beginning of the 20th century in the United States, liberal capitalism vigorous development and enter prosperous period. The United States from a predominantly agricultural society into a city centered society. The development of technology and economic reduce human’s dependence on nature .more and more man is likely to choice their way of life.
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Sister Carrie is a 1900 novel written by American author Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy
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Sister Carrie is the first novel, is also one of the most famous works in the history of American literature about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels."
is an American novel and a historic milestone
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让-保罗· 萨特
Inherited Zola's naturalistic
tradition, use of naturalistic writing
techniques, discusses the instinct desire and environmental impact on the fate of individuals
Sartre's existentialism
ideas throughout the Sister
Carrie, "provides us with the research of the novel a whole new perspective
InTheEnd来自Sister Carrie this artistic image is different with the characters in the other novels, she is the product of the turn of the century in the American monopoly capitalism development. She represents a generation of young Americans in the pursuit of the "American dream" as one saying: It
The work with true realism as distinctive features, is truly revealed at the beginning of the 20th century the tragic fact that the people fanatical pursuit of the American dream, reveals the instinct to drive drove people enjoyment but eventually disillusioned theme, illustrates in money as the center of American capitalism society there can be no real happiness.
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We can see from this novel , Carrie's fall is step has certain social factors . At first, due to the system of capitalism. She is part of a group of people at the bottom of the society, was forced by hard life, forced down the path of depravity .in the other side ,she is not content with the living conditions , To pursue more advanced life , and to satisfy his own desires, she has to relay on other man. through his Sister Carrie exposes the dark side of American society, but also attacked the American social moral standards, showing that Such a money society, the American dream is just a fantasy . The poor with honest labor is rising to the top but comfort own fantasies