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欲望驱动下的嘉莉妹妹

Sister Carrier under the Drive of Desire

内容摘要

《嘉莉妹妹》是美国著名的自然主义小说家西奥多·德莱塞的第一部长篇小说，讲
述的农村少女嘉莉如何从社会的底层一跃而成为百老汇明星的经历，生动地展示了嘉莉
的欲望不断增大永无止境的图画。
嘉莉·米贝先后经历了寻找工作的艰辛、疾病的困扰和失业的痛苦。为了生存，她 首先做了推销员杜洛埃的情妇，后来又与酒店经理赫斯特伍德私奔。在纽约赫斯特伍德 也丢掉了工作，为生活所迫，她在一家剧院当上了一名合唱演员。一个偶然的机会一举 成名，挤进了上流社会，似乎实现了朝思暮想的愿望，然而在故事的结尾她依然坐在摇 椅里梦想着自己的幸福。究其原因，是因为嘉莉自始至终都被欲望驱使着，欲望使她永
远不满足于现状，不断地寻找下一个目标。她的欲望是多种因素促成的。
关键词：欲望；因素；结果
Abstract

Sister Carrie is the first novel of the famous American naturalistic novelist Theodore
Dreiser. It tells the experience of the rural girl Carrie, who came from the lower social class, and the way she jumped into a Broadway star, and vividly shows us the pictures which were full of Carrie's increasing endless desire.
Sister Carrier has gone through the hardships of job hunting, diseases and unemployment. In order to survive in the big city, she first became the mistress of the salesman Drouet, and later eloped with the hotel manager Hurst wood. However, Hurst wood lost his job in New York. For the sake of life, Carrier became a chorus actor. An accidental opportunity put Carrier to fame, and let her squeeze into the high society. It seemed that she realized the desire, but at the end of the story, she still sits in the rocking-chair dreaming of her own happiness. Trace it to its cause, it is mainly that Carrie was driven from the beginning to the end by the desire that never made her satisfied with the status quo, and that she constantly search for another goal. Her desires were procured by many factors.
Key Words：desire ; factors; results
Contents

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Introduction .............................................................................................. 错误！未定义书签。
1 The Biggest Desire of Carrie Meeber ................................................... 错误！未定义书签。 2 Factors for Her Desire...........................................................................错误！未定义书签。
2.1 External Factors ..........................................................................错误！未定义书签。
2.1.1 Influence of Consumption Concept .................................. 错误！未定义书签。 2.1.2 Attraction of the Expensive Commodities........................错误！未定义书签。 2.1.3 Influence of the People around Carrie Meeber ................. 错误！未定义书签。
2.2 Internal Factors ...........................................................................错误！未定义书签。
2.2.1 The Change of Carrie Meeber's Social Status .................. 错误！未定义书签。
2.2.2 The Change of Carrie Meeber's Psychology.................... 错误！未定义书签。
3 Results of Carrie Meeber's Pursuit of Desire....................................... 错误！未定义书签。
3.1 Satisfied Material Requirement ..................................................错误！未定义书签。
3.2 Empty Inner World .....................................................................错误！未定义书签。
Conclusion ...............................................................................................错误！未定义书签。
Notes ........................................................................................................ 错误！未定义书签。
References................................................................................................错误！未定义书签。
Introduction

Since its publication in 1900, Sister Carrie has been widely read and

studied as one of the famous classics in the twentieth century. Accordingly, a

host of reader and critics try to read and reread it from different angles either on

the basis of literary criticism or by their keen perception. For years, the studies

on Sister Carrie as Theodore Dreiser's famous novel have appeared to be

diversified, and many critics have been inclined to read it as a naturalistic novel.

Naturalism emphasizes heredity and environment as important deterministic

forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and

detailed circumstances. However, few of the scholars have ever attempted to the

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drive of Carrie's desire. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze Carrie's desire, the

two factors for her desire, and the result of her pursuit of desire.
1 The biggest desire of Carrie Meeber

Carrie Meeber came to Chicago due to her envy for the metropolitan

material life. She has gone through the hardships of job hunting, diseases and

unemployment. In order to survive in the big city, she first became the mistress

of the salesman Drouet, and later eloped with the hotel manager Hurst wood.

However, Hurst wood lost his job in New York. For the sake of life, Carrier

became a chorus actor. An accidental opportunity put Carrier to fame and made

her squeeze into the high society, which was her biggest desire.
2 Factors for Her Desire

The factors for her desire include: external factor and internal factor. Sister

Carrie's desire was behind the industrialization and urbanization's drive of the

development of society, and in the late 19th and early 20th century, the United

States had a profound change to the production-oriented ideology and the

consumer-oriented ideology was gradually replaced by it because after the Civil

War rapid economic development, industrialization and urbanization together

reached unprecedented levels, and commodity was rich.

2.1 External Factors

External factors include: influence of consumption ，attraction of the

expensive commodities and influence of the people around Carrie Meeber. This

desire was to keep her purchase, consumption of new products, to satisfy her

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