分析社会背景对嘉莉妹妹人物性格的影响.docxVIP

【标题】分析社会背景对嘉莉妹妹人物性格的影响 【作者】车秋菊 【关键词】嘉莉；性格；彫响；变化；美国梦 【指导老师】张亚军卢静 【专业】英语 【正文】 Introduction Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) is a significant author in history of Ameri ca n Literature. He was born in Tn di a na on August 27, 1871. Hi s Germa n immigrant father was severe and distant. By contrast, his mother had seemingly endless measure of encourage and hope for him, but she was illiterate? His childhood was decidedly unhappy. The large family moved from one Indian town to another as the father lost or found employment. When he was at the age of fifteen, he went alone to Chicago. He was essential ly on his own, earning a lower support from a variety of menial jobs. He undertook many different jobs there, such as a laundry - truck driver, a railway worker, a shopping clerk, a journalist and a newspaper editor etc? So he knew the city vividly? This can easily be seen in his first novel—Sister Carrie that the Chicago of the novel is which Dreiser knew in his youth. He had little schooling, a high school teacher staked him to a year at Indiana University in 1889? His education came from expericnce and indepcndcnt reading and thinking? In short, his comprehensive all laid a solid foundation on his writing career. He used the language of 1ower people to expose the darkness and evi1 of the American society. His first novel—Sister Carrie, for the first time in the history of American literature, described the social life of different classes most comprehensively and truly. When it was published in 1990, it was censored and withdrawn on the a]legation of obscenity. Tt was virtually suppressed by its publisher who printed but refused to promote the book. It was republished in 1907. Now, Sister Carrie is quiet popular among readers of the world? In Sister Carrie, the writer describes the success of Carrie. Carrie is the heroine ? She is bor n in a working family of the flour mill, but she year ns for the luxurious life of the big city. She gets on the train for Chicago. She is attr