嘉莉妹妹情节总结英文版.docVIP

The novel depicts the rural girl Carrie came to Chicago to find the well-being of cities, in order to escape poverty, selling their virginity, met with a salesman and hotel manager of cohabitation, and then with the beautiful voice to become singers and story.In desperation, she has done a salesman Drouets mistress, and later as a result of a greater desire to do the hotel manager Hurstwood mistress.After the elopement with Hurstwood, in New York as a result of chance, she became a star at the actor, got the upper reaches of society and realize her fant asy. However, the so-called upper-class social life, gave her anything at all? She felt that life is empty and can not find the true meaning of life, in the loneliness and desolation, she dreams of sitting in a rocking chair in a TV drama is not the end of happiness. Thus in life there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature -- the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the men of action -- generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers -- artists all. As harps in the wind, the latter respond to every breath of fancy, voicing in their moods all the ebb and flow of the ideal. Man has not yet comprehended the dreamer any more than he has the ideal. For him the laws and morals of the world are unduly severe. Ever hearkening to the sound of beauty, straining for the flash of its distant wings, he watches to follow, wearying his feet in travelling. So watched Carrie, so followed, rocking and singing. And it must be remembered that reason had little part in this. Chicago dawning, she saw the city offering more of loveliness than she had ever known, and instinctively, by force of her moods alone, clung to it. In fine raiment and elegant surroundings, men seemed to be contented. Hence, she drew near these things. Chicago, New York; Drouet, Hurstwood; the world of fashion and the world of stage -- these were but incidents. Not them, but that which they represented, she longed for. Time