文档介绍：Sister Carrie
王克鹏
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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who eeded 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
Sister Carrie is a 1900 novel written by American author Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
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Historical context
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.
There is no doubt that the city is the center of the modern life, has e 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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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 ing a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels."
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, r