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【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 rrie is, by nature, not a bad girl. She is a product of the society, a realization of the theory that the fittest survive. Charlie Drouet ? Charlie Drouet is a charming, flashy (浮華的 ) salesman with a strong appetite for romance. Although he is warmhearted, he never takes any of his romantic affairs seriously. He provides Carrie with a place to stay after she is forced to stop living with her sister。 he also promises to marry her, but he never really intends to. He loses Carrie to Hurstwood and then, years later, after she has bee a famous actress, tries unsuccessfully to win her back. Gee Hurstwood Gee Hurstwood is the manager of 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. He tells Carrie that he loves her, but he fails to mention that he is married. After his wife discovers his affair with Carrie and files for divorce, he steals ten thousand dollars from the saloon and flees with Carrie to Montreal. There, he marries her before his divorce with Julia is plete. Although he keeps his theft a secret from Carrie, he is discovered by an investigator and required to return most of the money in order to protect his reputation. In New York, Hurstwood slowly descends into poverty. After Carrie leaves him, he bees a homeless beggar and eventually mits suicide. ? If Carrie is the positive conviction [proof] of the theory that the fittest survive, then Hurstwood is negative evidence. He is driven by his instinctive drives and elopes with Carrie to a new environment. He is still conventional and cannot throw abruptly away the longheld social morals. Therefore he is not fitted to live in New York. He has failed because he leaves his original place. His tragedy is the triumphs of the natural desires and of the theory that the fittest survive. Themes ? American Dream ? Change and Transformation ? Choices and Consequences ? Wealth and Poverty ? Identity ? Sex American Dream ? Each of Dreiser39。s characters in Sister Carrie search for their own American Dreams — Carrie, a poor country girl, arrives in Chicago, filled with the expectations of acquiring the finer things in life. She imagines the elegant clothes she will wear, the exciting places to which she will go, and the fashionable people with whom she will associate, thinking that everyone who lives beyond the boundaries of her Midwestern state has achieved that higher status. — Drouet seeks his own version of the American Dream. He has achieved a certain station in life and wears the clothes to prove it. He frequents the important establishments in town and has befriended many of the established people. Yet, he pursues the other appointments that represent his dream, such
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