(英语论文)《嘉莉妹妹》文学评论（英）.docVIP

LITERATURE REVIEW —AN ANALYSIS OF DREISER’S SISTER CARRIE 《嘉莉妹妹》文学评论 An 18-year-old girl without money or connections ventures forth from her small town in search of a better life in Theodore Dreisers revolutionary first novel. The chronicle of Carrie Meebers rise from obscurity to fame--and the effects of her progress on the men who use her and are used in turn--aroused a storm of controversy and debate upon its debut in 1900. The authors nonjudgmental portrait of a heroine who violates the contemporary moral code outraged some critics. A century later, Dreisers characters continue to fascinate readers. The protagonist Carrie is still a controversial character. Many critics regard Carrie as a “fallen woman”, and there are also some critics regard her as a “new woman”. Many people hold such an opinion that Sister Carrie is a tragedy, in which carrie is described as an immoral woman and she had an empty life though she succeeded as a famous player at the end of the novel. They conclude that “it is impossible to possess true happiness in a money-oriented capitalism society.”①(Li qi-shan 45). Jiang yu-qin says that “the city changed Carrie,a once innocent country girl into a seemingly successful empty life.” ②(Jiang yu-qin 135)In her abstract she points out that Carrie represents the women who “experience desiring,chasing,struggling,falling and disillusioning.” Carrie was successful eventually from material aspect, but still unhappy spiritually. We can find such a paragraph in Peng dan-kui’s “Theodore and his Sister Carrie ”, “She(Carrie) has two persons to help her,but instead of getting better, she goes from bad to worse. Actually there is no one who can be the saviour for Carrie in the society. And she comes to realize it is impossible to be a success by working hard honestly…….Carrie is just one of the many victims of the city’s influence and of the capitalist society.”③ (Peng dan-kui 75)From this passage, we can conclude that Mr. Peng takes Carrie as a traditiona