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英美文学笔记7

英美文学笔记7
英美文学笔记7

美国文学史及选读(第二册)笔记

The Literature of Realism

陈银2014/4/12 Lecture7 Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

Contents

1.Life Experience

2.Dreiser’s major works

3.Analysis of Sister Carrie

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3f19181635.html,ments on Theodore Dreiser’s style

5.Dreiser’s literary naturalism

Life Experience

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871

From the age of fifteen,he earned meager support from a variety of menial jobs

In 1889, a year study at Indiana University

From 1892 to 1902, he worked as an itinerant journalist.

In 1990, Dreiser’s first novel Sister Carrie was published.

In 1910, he resigned to write Jannie Gerharat

In 1904, he was on the way to several successful years as an editor.

In 1925, his novel An American Tragedy Published.

In 1927, he visited the Soviet Union and published Dreiser Looks at Russia

In 1945, he joined the Communist Party of America

On December 28

Dreiser was died.

Dreiser’s Major Works

1)Sister Carrie ?嘉莉妹妹?

2)Jennie Gerhardt ?珍妮姑娘?

3)The Trilogy of Desire?欲望三步曲?

(1) The Financier?金融家?

(2) The Titan?巨人?

(3) The Stoic?斯尔葛?

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》

Analysis of Sister Carrie

Plot

Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and her husband Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in.

Carrie takes a job running a machine in a shoe factory. One day, after an illness that costs her job, she encounters Drouet on a street. He persuades her to leave her sister and move in with him. Drouet installs her in a much larger apartment, and their relationship intensifies as Minnie dreams about her sister's fall from innocence. By the time Drouet introduces Carrie to George Hurstwood,

the manager of Fitzgerald and Moy's. Hurstwood, becomes infatuated with Carrie’s youth and beauty, they start an affair, communicating and meeting secretly in the expanding, anonymous city.

Drouet discovers he has been cuckolded, Carrie learns that Hurstwood is married, and Hurstwood’s wife, Julia, learns from an acquaintance that Hurstwood has been out driving w ith another woman and deliberately excluded her from the Elks theatre night. Hurstwood mollifies Carrie by agreeing to marry her, and the couple move to New Y ork City.

In New Y ork, Hurstwood and Carrie rent a flat where they live as George and Carrie Wheeler. Hurstwood buys a minority interest in a saloon, at first, is able to provide Carrie with a satisfactory. After only a few years, the saloon’s landlord sells the property and Hurstwood’s business partner expresses his intent to terminate the partnership.

Carrie turns to New Y ork’s theatres for employment and becomes a chorus girl.Hurstwood ultimately joins the homeless of New Y ork, taking odd jobs, falling ill with pneumonia, and finally becoming a beggar.

Characters

Caroline Meeber:

a.k.a. Carrie, a young woman from rural Wisconsin; the protagonist.

Minnie Hanson

Carrie's dour elder sister who lives in Chicago and puts her up on arrival.

Sven Hanson

Minnie's husband, of Swedish extraction and taciturn temperament.

Charles H. Drouet

a buoyant traveling salesman Carrie meets on the train to Chicago.

George W. Hurstwood

a well-to-do, sophisticated man who manages Hannah and Hogg's resort.

Themes

American Dream

Each of Dreiser’s characters in Sister Carrie search for their own “American Dreams”-the ones offered by a growing and prosperous democratic country. Carrie, a poor country girl, arrives in Chicago, filled with the expectations of acquiring the finer things in life.

Change and T ransformation

Carrie and Hurstwood undergo dramatic changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. Though gradual, their transformations create immediate repercussions along the way.

Choices and Consequences

Hurstwood makes one choice that dramatically affects the rest of his life. While all choices result in consequences, those consequences can be positive or negative. Hurstwood’s decision to take the money from his employer’s safe starts his downward spiral to his eventual suicide.

Sex

In the early 1900s, the morals and virtues of the V ictorian era still guided people’s actions. People with proper upbringing did not speak of sex.

The public was shocked that Dreiser’s characters so openly participated in explicit relationships and that Dreiser seemed to condone it.

Class Conflict

Industrial growth brought the United States a period of prosperity during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Factory workers, however, not only earned low incomes, but they also worked long hours. Consequently, a wide division existed between the wealthy and the poor.

Throughout Sister Carrie, the distinction between social classes is obvious. The clothes people wear, the homes in which they live, and the activities in which they are involved distinguish the rich from the poor.

Identity

Experiences contribute greatly to shaping people’s identities. Carrie’s transformation from the beginning of the novel to the end occurs as a result of her responses to her experiences. she never really has an identity but adjusts her “act”to fit the situation.

Dreiser’s Style

?Dreiser's style has been a controversial aspect of his work from the beginning

?awkward in sentence structure

?dramatized the life in a very realistic way

?not polished but very serious and well calculated to achieve

Dreiser’s literary naturalism

?As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

?Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control.”

?life is "so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable."

Homework

?How do you think the character Martin Eden and Sister Carrie? Who do you like?

Why?

?Do you think they are similar in their success? Why or Why not?

?How do you view Sister Carrie’s choice (to be lover of two man)? Do you approve her choice? Why or why not?

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