The-tragedy-of-Hurstwood-嘉莉妹妹中男主角的悲剧性.ppt

The tragedy of Hurstwood manager of Fitzgerald and Moys, a saloon in Chicago. At the beginning of the novel, he is a wealthy, important man. He falls in love with Carrie after meeting her through Drouet. After his wife discovers his affair with Carrie and files for divorce, he steals ten thousand dollars from Fitzgerald and Moys and flees with Carrie. ?In New York, Hurstwood slowly descends into apathy and poverty. After Carrie leaves him, he becomes a homeless beggar and eventually commits suicide. Dramatic changes prominent and trusted businessman, husband, and father homeless street beggar commit suicide successful, wealthy and well-known charming indifferent to his family shrewd and clever selfish hypocritical “Hurstwood’s psychology unfolds under conditions so absolute that they do indeed seem to determine his fate:mid-life crisis, the effects of an emotionally arid family life, the lure of a young woman, the influence of alcohol, the stress of isolation, and the depression that follows upon business ruin and the loss of social identity.” family atmosphere “Hurstwood’s residence could scarcely be said to be infused with this home spirit. It lacked that toleration and regard without which the home is nothing.”(chapter9P83) “Now, however, in her seventeenth year, Jessica had developed a certain amount of reserve and independence which was not inviting to the richest form of parental devotion.” “Young Hurstwood junior was in his twentieth year... He did not find anyone in the house who particularly cared to see.”(chapter9P84) “Mrs Hurstwood was the type of the woman who has ever endeavored to shine and has been more or less chagrined at the evidences of superior capability in this direction elsewhere.”(chapter9P84) “In this atmosphere Hurstwood had moved for a number of years, not thinking deeply concerning it.” “There is no love lost between them. There was no great feelings of dissatisfaction. Her opinion on any subject was not startling.”(chapter9P87)