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Natural Selection And the Survival of the Fittest——On the Themes of Sister Carrie 摘要 《嘉莉妹妹》是美国著名作家西奥多·德莱赛的成名作，对这部小说主题的研究向来是众说纷纭。学者们已经探讨了嘉莉妹妹的命运，道德观，新女性主义，资本主义的丑恶等等。本文从物竞天择适者生存的角度对小说的主题进行全新的研究，去更深刻的理解社会达尔文主义和德莱赛，去广泛的探讨嘉莉妹妹以及本书其他人物的不同命运与适者生存的关系，去理解竞争对个人生活及价值观的深远影响。关键词：物竞天择；适者生存；德莱赛；嘉莉妹妹                  Abstract Carrie Sister is the first famous work of Theodore Dreiser who is an America all-known writer. The themes of this novel are studied by different scholars who conclude special views or opinions. The scholars have already discussed Sister Carries destiny, her ethical values, the new feminism and the capital evil and so on. This paper studies the themes on the theory of Natural Selection and the Survival of the Fittest in order to learn Social Darwinism better. At the same time, it shows that a should discuss the relationships in Natural Selection and Carrie Sister and other persons fates, which is easy to understand the significant influence of the competition in personal life and the conception of values.  key words：Natural Selection; the Survival of the Fittest ; Dreiser; Carrie Sister           Chapter 1 Introduction Carrie Sister, a book written by Dreiser, had lots of themes. Natural Selection and the Survival of the fittest as one of them reflected in the whole book. Carrie Sister and other persons destiny all had relationships with it. The influence of Social Darwinism appeared in this book, too. According to this paper, the readers would understand Dreiser and his novels themes better. And also, when we met the fierce competition in the job market we could deal with the problems better. Carrie had large amount of virtues that deserved to study. So we should learn from her. The scholars studied Carrie Sister in different perspectives. For example, American Dream, Morality about Carrie, Carries fate and so on. Among them Naturalist Selection and the survival of the fittest was a new research directi