《嘉莉妹妹》中嘉莉的性格分析--.doc

《嘉莉妹妹》中嘉莉的性格分析---毕业论文 【标题】???《嘉莉妹妹》中嘉莉的性格分析 【作者】雷梅琼 【关键词】嘉莉妹妹；西奥多?德莱赛；性格；欲望 【指导老师】白 敏 黄凤菊 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionIn the history of American literary naturalism, Theodore Dreiser was one of the most outstanding novelists in the early twentieth century. Coming from the bottom of the society, Dreiser was the first one to describe the real American citizen life. He was called pioneer of American contemporary fiction and was thought to be the great master of American realism. Dreiser had been recognized as a profound and prescient critic of debased American values and as a powerful novelist.?“Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871, the twelfth of thirteen children.” 1 Dreiser’s novels were direct projections of his inner life as well as careful transcriptions of his experiences. Sister Carrie was Dreiser’s first novel. Because it depicted social transgressions by characters who felt no remorse and largely escaped punishment, and because it used?“strong” language and used names of living persons, it was virtually suppressed by its publisher, who printed but refused to promote the book. Since its reissue in 1907 it had steadily risen in popularity and scholarly acceptance as one of the key works in the Dreiser canon.?“Indeed, though turn-of-the-century readers found Dreiser’s point of view crude and immoral, his influence on the fiction of the first quarter of the century is perhaps greater than any other writer’s.” 2When Dreiser came to write the novel Sister Carrie, his inspiration originated from his sister Emma’s experience. Emma Wilhelmina, the second of Dreiser’s five sisters was eight years older than Theodore. Carrie’s experience was just the reflection of Emma. Dreiser chose Emma’s Chicago experience as the basis for the first half of Sister Carrie. He wanted to use this story to express poor people’s fates shaped by the immoralities of the capitalist society. Sister Carrie was th