文档介绍：《嘉莉妹妹》女主人公的性格分析
摘要:《嘉莉妹妹》是美国著名的自然主义小说家西奥多·德莱塞的第一部长篇小说,讲述的天真,纯洁,美丽乡下少女嘉莉如何从社会底层登上百老汇红五星宝座的过程,细腻地展示了嘉莉的生存景观及心路历程。该作品以真切的现实主义为鲜明的特征,揭露了资本主义社会繁荣的表面底下的失业、贫困和饥饿,对美国贫富对立的社会作了深刻的描写。在美国文学史上,嘉莉妹妹一直是颇具争议的人物,本文主要对女主人公嘉莉的性格进行分析,研究嘉莉妹妹的性格特征。
关键字:嘉莉妹妹,性格分析,写作意图
引言
作者的介绍
西奥多·德莱塞(MarkTwainl871~1945)美国小说家。1871年8月27日生于印第安纳州的特雷霍特镇。出生于破产小业主家庭。曾长期在社会底层劳动挣扎。父亲原是德国的纺织工人,于1846年逃避兵役到了美国,开过纺织工场。德莱塞12岁起充当呢绒绸缎店的店员和报童;17岁时去芝加哥谋生,曾在一家小饭馆里洗碟子,在铁器店做伙计。18岁时。由小时候的一个女教师资助,进入印第安纳大学肄业,有机会接触到达尔文、赫胥黎和斯宾塞的著作。一年后又回到芝加哥,充当房地产公司的推销员和洗衣店的送货员。从23岁开始。先后在芝加哥和圣路易斯的报纸任记者,在纽约《每月》杂志任主编。开始写作《嘉莉妹妹》,第二年完成并出版。《嘉莉妹妹》通过农村姑娘家莉到芝加哥谋生而成为名演员的故事,揭露了资本主义社会繁荣的表面底下的失业、贫困和饥饿,对美国贫富对立的社会作了深刻的描写。《嘉莉妹妹》用巴尔扎克式的现实主义写成为美国文学开创了一个新的天地。
Theodore Dreiser (MarkTwainl871 ~ 1945) American novelist. August 27, 1871 was born in the town of Terre Haute, Indiana. Born in the bankruptcy of small property owners family. Had long been struggling at the bottom of Labor. The father was a textile worker in
Germany to avoid military service in 1846, the United States, opened a textile factory. Dreiser act as the woolen Chou Duandian staff and newsboy at age 12; the age of 17 went to Chicago to earn a living in a small restaurant, washing dishes, do the folks in hardware shops. The age of 18. By the child a female teacher support, into the Indiana University Graduated, and have access to the writings of Darwin, Huxley and Spencer. One year later, he returned to Chicago, to act as a real estate salesman and laundry deliveryman. From the 23-year-old. Has any reporter in Chicago and St. Louis newspapers, the editor in chief at New York, "a monthly magazine. "Sister Carrie" began to write, the second pleted and published. "Sister Carrie" through rural Gu Niangjia and to Chicago to earn a living and e the story of the actor exposed underneath the surface of the prosperity of capitalist society, unemployment, poverty and hunger, made a profound description of the society of rich and poor opposition in the United States. "Sister Carrie" with the realism