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西奥多·德莱塞 Theodore Dreiser 商英七班 马雯雯 Brief Introduction Writer, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Raised in poverty and in a German-speaking environment, he was a Catholic, he left home for Chicago at age 16. After a period of odd jobs and a year at the University of Indiana, he became a Midwestern newspaper reporter and, in New York after 1894, a magazine feature writer. In 1892, married Sara. White , but their married life wasn’t happy, even They have been separated since 1909, they never officially divorced . In 1910, he quit job and became a professional writer. In 1945, joined in the United States Communist party , and on December passed away . Works Sister Carrie (1900) 《嘉莉妹妹》 Jennie Gerhardt (1911) 《珍妮姑娘》 Trilogy of Desire 《欲望三部曲》 The Financier (1912) 《金融家 》 The Titan (1914) 《巨人》 The Stoic (posthumously ) (1945)《斯多葛》 The ‘Genius’ (1915) 《天才》 An American Tragedy (1925)《美国的悲剧》 Sister Carrie Carrie is a beautiful rural girl .She envied material life in metropolis and came to Chicago to make a living . Grim reality shattered her dream .In desperation ,she has done a salesman Drouet’s mistress and later became the hotel manager Hurstwood’s mistress. After the elopement with Hurstwood and the difficult life ,she became a star at a theater ,got the upper reaches of society and realize her dream .But she felt that life is empty and can’t find the ture meaning of life . COMMENTS Sister Carrie best embodies Dreisers naturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance,a few extraodinary 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 is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks t