【正文】 all of these choices were reflected that she had the initiative and a personality of the “New women”. Because of her rough life with her sister and brotherinlaw was not her imagination. She made first choice of living with Drouet. It improved her life and enjoyed herself, however, when she found Drouet could not marry her and support her enough. Therefore, after the appearance of the manager of hotel, Carrie made the second choice. She chosen to live with Hurstwood 黑龍江大學(xué)劍橋?qū)W院畢業(yè)論文 12 and left Drouet. Carrie’s relationship with others was the demand of survival. Everyone has rights to pursuit their happiness. In that society, women almost were conventional women. They could only marry once in all their life. A couple was not acceptable to live together without marriage. (Jiang Daochao, 2020:33) However, Carrie upset this traditional rule, she had the untraditional love. She tried her best to adapt the responsibility of a housewife. Finally, along with Hurstwood’s bankruptcy, they had to be living on credit. This was not the life what she dreamed. She did not depend upon men any longer. She left Hurstwood as the third choice. She believed that she could have a better life rely on her own efforts. At the end, she succeeded in her stage. She always insisted her choice was right. Carrie’s Independence Female selecting and female starting to work are both chief divisions of the fight for parity for women in America. As far as I am concerned, this is the symbol of women’s independence. Female rights and the origin of feminism change the way of looking at female in the Middle Class in society and change the Middle Class values. Female are setting about to have a more individualist vision on life, they are recognizing that they do not have to count on a man to survive. Carrie is from an innocent girl to be a successful actress by her own. She shapes the new imag。 it still is not a short process to acplish until women are pletely to be accepted in society. That is the beginning of Women’s selfconsciousness. In the late nieenth century, “New women” have emerged in large numbers in society. It generally refers to two kinds of women, one is young workers and the other is 黑龍江大學(xué)劍橋?qū)W院畢業(yè)論文 11 women who want to change their fate. New women generally have a strong awareness of self and a good education. They usually are brave and open. They firmly believe in fighting for their rights. Women had been influenced on the thought of “New women” in the United State, when Sister Carrie was published. They have begun to challenge the ethics of tradition, women not only were mothers at home, but they were also able to work and contribute to society. Carrie is depicted by Dreiser。s rights” had bee familiar across the culture. In the nieenth century, in America, it started to change for the role women would play in society. Women’s Selfconsciousness With the development of society and the progress of The Times, people39。s subordination was less perceptible and more tolerable than it would bee in the developing middleclass and urbanizing culture of the postRevolutionary years. By 1848, when the first women39。s lives emerged early in the nation39。s style influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous, and changed the way Americans write their language. Dreiser focused on the first to insist, the culture that Sister Carrie reflected in economic conditions. In feminist reading, at first, the book portrayed life for a young woman living alone and working in a factory. Through his narrative, Dreiser conveyed her vulnerability and powerlessness. Finally, she became an actress by her efforts. She had ability to support her life. As a woman, she wants to own poverty and a life of dreaming by herself, there can be no manner of doubt about it. However, most of that society’s women generally have had fewer legal rights and vocation chances than men. And Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women39。s rights. At this moment, women’s thought changed a lot. When they took account of marriage, they turned to focus on 黑龍江大學(xué)劍橋?qū)W院畢業(yè)論文 9 feeling that was romantic love, rather than purely economic considerations. During this period, the teacher became a respected career。s minds, and even confused and bewildered. The early of nieenth century, the law of the United States was not considered married on the legal equality between women and their husbands, and even her husband were allowed to beat his wife with sticks what was “appropriate penalties”. Their all property pletely belonged to her husband in marriage. When husband and wife had been divorced, their legal guardianship of children should belong to her husband, the wife had no a right to look after her children. In 1848,in the leader of Elizabeth Cady Stanton ，which is the first women39。s subject experience to extend the boundaries of theory has, for example, finds an important place in the field of methodological analysis. Women’s Status Reflected by Carrie Background Dreiser39。 in the women39。 and thirdwave feminism , which incorporates racial justice, LGBT rights, and class oppression into the feminist worldview and seeks real, practical equality for all women. Feminism, however, is not only a critique or an extension of, traditional 黑龍江大學(xué)劍橋?qū)W院畢業(yè)論文 8 ideologies but has also made a significant contribution of its own in the field of theory and praxis. Feminist methodology, which arises from a tradition of 39。s issues and rights and identifying injustice to females in the social status. Historian and activist Cheris Kramarae once famously remarked that “feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.” (X