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Theodore Dreiser (1871~1945) 1900， Sister Carrie 1907，reissue 1911，Jennie Gerhardt Trilogy of Desire 1912，The Financier 1914，The Titan 1947，The Stoic Hero ?modeled after the business magnate, Charles T. Yerkes. 1915， The Genius ? a partly autobiographical novel 1925，An American Tragedy based on a real murder case how mans desire for wealth and status overwhelms his moral sense detailed portrayal of the dark side of the American Dream ? political activities literary output fell off sharply 1946, The Bulwark 1945, died of heart failure Nonfictions 1928, Dreiser Looks at Russia 1931, Tragic America 1941, America is Worth Saving left-oriented in his views retained a strong sympathy for communism 1945, joined the Communist Party ii). Sister Carrie 1). The Story Carrie Meeber ? a Midwestern country girl ? moves to Chicago to look for a better life On the train ? Charles Drouet a salesman her sister’s home ? keep her ? seriously ill Charles Drouet ? takes her home as his mistress ? takes up with his friend George Hurstwood, a middle-aged, married restaurant manager Hurstwood embezzles money and elopes with Carrie to New York City ? opens a saloon the saloon? a failure Carrie ? a chorus girl ? become successful Hurstwood ? a drunken beggar ? commits suicide 2). The Comment The 3 worlds: her sisters working-class existence her life with Drouet in Chicago her life with Hurstwood in New York The Details ponderous the plight of the heroine her desire for a better life Carrie ? the fittest ? comes to understand the usefulness of sex rises by the means of a male stepladder Drouet Hurstwood ? means to an end for Carrie ╳ possess a moral fibre Carrie?a slave to the heredity the environment the world is cold and harsh ? Carrie a feather in the wind ? alone and helpless drifts with the tide without judgment of her own Carrie?a rocking chair Carrie ? a seeker cannot be satisfied ? a new world to conquer new goals to achieve more complex than a