美国文学西奥多德莱赛精要.pptxVIP

;Major Works; Writing style Artistic features;Point of View ;Consumerism：Pursuing the decent consumption, being aspired to immoderate enjoyment and relaxation, and take it as the purpose of life and the values of life. Hedonism: It is a philosophy that pleasure is the most important part of human’s pursuit. Money worship: It is a kind of moral concept of money, which money is not only the universal, and it is a standard of all actions. ;An American Tragedy; An American Tragedy is a detailed portrayal of the dark side of the American Dream—the story of what can happen when an ordinary mans desire for wealth and status overwhelms his moral sense. Dreiser built the novel around a real-life crime after spending years researching incidents in which men murdered women with whom they had been romantically involved but who had become inconvenient for one reason or another (often because of an unwanted pregnancy, as in the novel). Dreiser chose as his starting point the case of Chester Gillette, who drowned his pregnant girlfriend in a New York lake in 1906. Like the novels Clyde Griffiths, Chester Gillette was electrocuted for his crime. ;不忘初心;Thanks for your listening.