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【正文】 s emotions, she breaks off their relationship and pursues one with Hurstwood. After living with Hurstwood for some time, she realizes she can no longer benefit from the arrangement and leaves him, too. Dreiser’s Writing Style ? Without good construction ? Deficient characterization ? Lack in imagination ? Simple words ? Journalistic method of reiteration重復(fù)新聞手法 ? Techniques in painting (wordpicture, sharp contrast, truth in color, movement in outline) Evaluation on Theodore Dreiser ? 1) Dreiser has been a controversial figure in American literary history. His works are powerful in their portrayal of the changing American life, but his style is considered crude. He showed a new way of presenting reality and inspired the writers of the 1920s with courage and insight. It is in Dreiser’s works that American naturalism is said to have e of age. 2) He embraced social Darwinism. He learned to regard man as merely an animal driven by greed and lust in a struggle for existence in which only the fittest, the most ruthless, survive. Human tragedy es as a result of the collision between man’s biological needs and society’s ruthless manipulation. 3) It is Dreiser’s announced intention to report the coarse and the vulgar and the cruel and the terrible in life in defiance of the genteel and evasive current literature with which he had absolutely no patience and sympathy. 4) Dreiser’s writings reveal a tremendous vital lust for life with a conviction that man is the end and measure of all things in a world which is devoid of purpose and standards. 5) Although Dreiser’s novels are formless at times and awkwardly written and his characterization is found deficient and his prose pedestrian and dull, yet his very energy proves to be more than a pensation. 6) He is good at employing the journalistic method of reiteration to burn a central impression into the reader’s mind. His interest in painting is reflected in his taste for wordpictures, sharp contrast, truth in color, and movement in outline. 。s characters so openly participated in explicit relationships and that Dreiser seemed to take it granted. ? Carrie uses sex to gain status for herself. She sees nothing wrong in living with Drouet to get the clothes she wants and to have opportunities to move in Chicago39。s home and moving around with Drouet, she sees, though, that this action will get her closer to having what she wants. As she understands her value to others, she changes her identity accordingly. As a result, she never really has an identity but adjusts her “act” to fit the situation. In the end, this ability gains her recognition as an acclaimed actress but does not result in her achieving happiness. Sex ? In the early 1900s, the morals and virtues of the Victorian era
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