【導(dǎo)讀】美國自然主義作家西奧多?德萊塞，以其鋒利的筆鋒，向讀者描繪了美國社會的種種問題，抨擊了美國社會高雅面紗下圍繞金錢而產(chǎn)生的種種丑惡現(xiàn)象。其作品以其史無前例的大膽寫。得了極高的榮譽(yù)。本文通過介紹作者的生平，以及對《美國悲劇》這部小說中的人物蘿貝塔。和社會環(huán)境的驅(qū)使下不免地要往上爬，追求物質(zhì)上的滿足，實(shí)現(xiàn)心中的夢。蘿貝塔的悲劇，不僅是她個人的悲劇，也是美國眾多女性的悲

　　

【正文】 n dream had a little changed. Although the dream of greatness, wealth and success had not changed yet, the desire of consuming as much as possible had taken place of the sobriety. The young generation paid more attention to the practice and the fortable even luxurious material life, while more neglecting the traditional virtue and dogma than the generation of their parents did. The consuming culture and the hedonism prevailed over the whole American in the 20th century. In such surrounding, lead by these ideas, the young generation could not help pursuit money, rich material life and the sex. The desire for money and success can be seen everywhere in American Tragedy. The most of guiltless tragedy person was Roberta。 the most typical is Clyde Griffiths. To fulfill his desire for beautiful clothes, sex and material life, Clyde left his family to work in GreenDavidson, went to his uncle39。s factory, pursued Hotense, Roberta and Sondra. It was the tempt desire for Sondra and her wealth that made Clyde want to kill Roberta to avoid marrying her. It was the same to Roberta. Forced by the yearning for the wealth to improve her status, Roberta left her family for Lycurgus, New York, for good luck. The reason why she fell in love with Clyde at first sight and then had sex with him without marriage was plicated. She thought Clyde was the nephew of Samuel Griffiths。 he might be rich and could bring her wealth and better status. From the context An American Tragedy, we can see this: “And then one day shortly thereafter, Gilbert Griffiths walking through here and stopping to talk to Clyde, she was led to imagine by this that Clyde was really much more of a figure socially and financially than she had previously thought… “Here es griffiths. His father owns this whole factory and when he dies, he will get it,they say. And he is his cousin.” When she knew this, her first response is: “Is he rich, too?” When she knew that: “He only came on here a little while ago to learn the business. Maybe he won`t work here much longer.” “She was suddenly troubled by this last remark. She had not been thinking, or so she had been trying to tell herself, of Clyde in any romantic way, and yet thought that he might suddenly go at any moment, never to be seen by her any more, disturbed her now”(Dreiser, 1965,) From above context, we can say that it is because of the very dreaming of bettering herself and improving her social status and increasing her wealth in the future. So Roberta allowed herself to fall in love with Clyde and had the intimate relationship with Clyde. And finally, it turned out to be a dream.. Money worship, hedonism, individualism and the desire for unrealistic delusion are filling the world. Living in such world, the youth could not get the right guidance and education, led by the Horatio Alger myth, the American youth are apt to destroy themselves. The false concept and culture in American society are the original causes of Roberta39。s tragedy. D. The Analysis of Roberta39。s Tragedy on Feminism An American Tragedy was succeeding in the history literature. The author even said that the novel?s success was not a tragedy, but it was the American Tragedy. The novel expressed strongly plains through Clyde39。s American Dream and the female?s tragedy. It revealed humble women?s tragedy. The feminism was a new word. In the 18c, feminism was grown up from the west. The feminism was based on the west bourgeois democratic and broke out larger scale. The feminism was a politics movement of the way of emancipating the women. Robert had no enough braveness to accept her mistaken。 she wanted to require Clyde to share the mistaken. Obviously, she was a tragic person. Feminism called on women to look for a new way of life, got release from the chain society. In American Tragedy, Roberta just was a lack selfconfidence girl, her destiny decided her tragedy, and herself was blamed for her tragedy. She could not refuse the lure of sex and enjoyment, American Dream affected her, too. The life style of hedonism had entered every American mind. Roberta often left her work to disport with Clyde. In her mind。 she wanted thought the marriage to reach her goal. Feminism?s gist was selfconfidence and impendent, through oneself effort to get success. In the novel, it emphasized Roberta39。s stupidity and irresolute individuality. After she was pregnant, she felt very afraid and had no any idea to solve the case. She never thought to give birth for her child and began new life, this was her tragedy. Novel describes that people thought was ruined in their sprit world, so that led the tragedy to happen. Conclusion Naturalism is the brief writing style that man is shaped of hereditary and environment force beyond his control. In particular, naturalism is the brief that man?s inner sense of willingness toward a good or toward an evil is an illusion merely.(Donld,2021,) Thus, for the naturalist it makes no praise the action, they are only doing what es naturally to them. As a novelist, Theodore Dreiser was the sort of naturalist who felt an extraordinary need to explain things, to represent his characters motives and actions as cogent as possible. He offered many instances scientificallybased explanations of their determinism, and even corrected popular misconceptions as to the cause and significances of human endeavor. An American Tragedy tended to emphasize that female should be independent and could not reply on men. Women are not accessories, but dominate positions in the society. If a female is too weak in mind, she would bee a tragedy in the society. Her tragedy destined to happen at that time. In American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser portrayed his characters Clyde and Roberta. Whatever they like, in American capitalist, they did it what they were forced anything, just