文档介绍：Introduction
The impact of social and natural factors on Carrie is the main reasons dominating her, and these factors are found in Carrie's tragic fate. She is permitted to live in her sister's house only on the condition of paying $4 per week for her room-and-board and when she cannot afford that, her sister and brother-in-law refuses to take her in. In addition, the outside environment has great influence on her is great. She cannot fulfill her desire of living happily with such little money by honest hard work. And she knows clearly that hard work would not make her e a rich person. Carrie longs to live in cities like Chicago and New York. Luxurious life in those cities lures her. In face of the poverty and the richness, she chooses the latter. Her endless lust fortable and abundant life drives her to be two men's mistress. Against forts, the morality carries little weight.
The reason which leads to Carrie's tragedy is her identity as a woman .Although the economy develops rapidly, Victorianism still controls people's ideology. This society is men's society, not women's. Women have no social status. Women like Carrie who are considered to be depraved have to extricate themselves by ending up their lives.
The naturalists expose what the “Genteel Tradition” really is, and the state of the industrialization of American society. Women are nothing but week in the indifferent society .Meanwhile people are unable to fight against the social pressures and the personal limitations. As a result, women have to suffer the disappointment and live in despair.
For more than one thousand years women are suppressed and taught to be passive, obedient at home and in society. The female is female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities, and afflicts with a natural defectiveness. Men blame this situation on account of women's ontological position and point out that the female is the object and the other. Women are defined and differentiated with reference to men; women are inci