美国文学Sister-Carrie英文PPT课件.pptVIP

Sister Carrie Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser . It has been called the greatest of all American urban novels. A masterwork of realism Charles H. Drouet(traveling salesman) live together; mistress(情妇) Carrie(a country girl) George W. Hurstwood (resort manager) mistress; Eloping（私奔） famous actress Plot Summary Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline Meeber(sister carrie)（P139） takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and her husband Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet(P146), a traveling salesman, who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and unspoiled manner. They exchange contact information and both off the train. Characters Caroline Meeber: bright; timid; full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth (P139) Chas.H.Drouet: a buoyant traveling salesman ;good clothes; daring;kindly familiarity (P142) Caroline Meeber: bright; timid; full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth Chas.H.Drouet: a buoyant traveling salesman ; good clothes; daring; kindly familiarity Words Characteristic using lots of words to discribe the environment and human inside that to form the characters. the Naturalism of Theodore Dreiser Criticize it mainly analyzes the character to depict a real American social life in the late 1890’s, especially those of poor people’s lives from struggling, fighting to failing for their so-called “American Dreams”. At last, the article points out the most important resource resulting in the tragedies: the American social system. 部分资料从网络收集整理而来，供大家参考，感谢您的关注！