• Hurstwood
Other man
Died miserably
Did she achieve the life she wanted or she lost what she had before? maybe both.
Main Idea of Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie
• Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels."
He came up with an evil idea .
Carrie’s leaving
• She leaved with Hurstwood to New York in an evening. because he deceived her that Drouet was in hospital and asked her to leave immediately.
Jennie Gerhardt
The theme of Sister Carrie
• It best embodies Dreiser’s naturalistic belief that men are controlled and conditioned by heredity(遗传), environment and chance, but a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly, instead strive unsuccessfully, and to find meaning and purpose for their existence. Carrie, as one of such people, senses that she is merely a cipher(无足轻重的人) in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort. In Sister Carrie, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and impotence(无能为力) of men.
• Drouet
friends
Like her
carrie
• Hurstwood
Carrie and Drouet’s house Hurstwood’s family
Met many times
money
•
One day, Hurstwood found that his friend had not knocked the safe. And if he wanted to divorce with his wife, so much money will be his wife’s.
• 4) The Genius « 天才» an
autobiographical work
• 5) An American Tragedy • « 美国悲剧» (it was banned in Boston in 1927) • 6)The Bulwark《堡垒》
Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie
• the rural girl Carrie came to Chicago , in order to escape poverty
• Meet a salesman on the train
Then, having experienced the hardship of the city, she eventually became the salesman Drouet’s mistress
• • • • •
1927 He visited The Soviet Union. 1941被选为美国作家协会主席 1944获美国文学艺术学会荣誉奖 July,1945. 加入美国共产党 He died Dec. 28, 1945, Hollywood, California.
The Important Points
• She did it and became a famous actress. She left her nominal husband, Husrtwood.
Ame
• Drouet
Met her in a theater
Carrie
Alone with money
Missed but didn‟t bother her, once in a while asked her money
Winter came, they need money to pay rent, coal and so on.
Carrie went to find jobs after her “husband” ‟s hunting nothing for a long time.
• I once took part in a drama, maybe I could find a job of acting.
1871-08-27,Indiana
1945-12-28,Hollywood Novelist Sara White
Parents
Sarah and John Paul Dreiser
Life
• Dreiser came from a strict Catholic family. His father- John Paul Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen, and mother-Sarah was from the Mennonite farming , she was disowned for marrying John and converting to Roman Catholicism. • Dreiser was born in Terre Haute Indiana • Theodore was the twelfth of thirteen children (the ninth of the ten surviving).
在这里目睹了一边是花天酒地，一边是赤贫如洗的强烈 对比，亲眼看到穷人如何受鄙视，伪善如何畅行无阻。 因此他执意要对他所目睹的现状进行道德评价。
• After proposing in 1893, he married Sara White on December 28, 1898. • They ultimately separated in 1909, partly as a result of Dreiser„s infatuation with Thelma Cudlipp, the teenage daughter of a work colleague, but were never formally divorced. • 1895 He began to create . • In 1919 Dreiser met his cousin Helen Richardson with whom he began an affair with sadomasochistic |sedo„mæsəkizm| elements. They eventually married on 13 June 1944.
• • • 1. Dreiser‟s major works 2.The main idea of Sister Carrie 3. Comments on Theodore Dreiser‟s style
Dreiser’s Major Works
• • • • 1) Sister Carrie «嘉莉妹妹» 2) Jennie Gerhardt «珍妮姑娘»
Dreiser’s Major Works
• • • • • 3) The Trilogy of Desire « 欲望三步曲» (1) The Financier « 金融家» (2) The Titan « 巨人» (3) The r’s Major Works
• New York
3
1
Money’s decrease House’s changing 2
• Here, Carrie met a graceful woman, Mrs. Vance, who was so graceful and she could do what she wanted to do, buy what she wanted to buy.
• Mrs Vance
Carie
Vance introduced Ame ,another man, to Carrie
• Ame
• Eventually, Carrie and Hurstwood moved to a shabby house with less and less money.