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Theodore Dreiser;;Theodore Dreiser;Dreiser : brief introduction ;Main Works;Main Works;Dreiser’s writing features--style;Dreiser’s writing features--themes;What’s naturalism?;American naturalism background;American naturalism background;Sister Carrie 《嘉莉妹妹》;;Themes in Sister Carrie;First novel by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1900, but suppressed until 1912. Sister Carrie tells the story of a rudderless( 漫无目的） but pretty small-town girl who comes to the big city Chicago filled with vague ambitions. She is used by men and uses them in turn to become a successful Broadway actress, while George Hurstwood, the married man who has run away with her, loses his grip on life and descends into beggary and suicide. Sister Carrie was the first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement in its grittily factual presentation of the vagaries (变幻莫测）of urban life and in its ingenuous heroine, who goes unpunished for her transgressions （越轨）against conventional sexual morality. The book??s strengths include a brooding（多思的） but compassionate view of humanity, a memorable cast of characters, and a compelling narrative line. The emotional disintegration （蜕变）of Hurstwood is a much-praised triumph of psychological analysis. Sister Carrie is a work of pivotal（关键的） importance in American literature。;Living in a poor and intensely religious family, Dreiser had a very unhappy childhood. A world of jungle where “kill or to be killed” was the law can be found in Dreiser‘s fictions. In Sister Carrie Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards. Sister Carrie best embodies Dreiser’s naturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she