【正文】 tter of desire. Mrs. Hale’s extended harangues upon the subjects of wealth and position taught her to distinguish between degrees of wealth.”【9】 When she es to her own room, Carrie sees their parative poverty. She is not paring it with what she has had, but what she has seen recently. She begins to ponder what, after all, Drouet is and what she is. On the other hand, Carrie fears of losing Drouet’s affection, of being abandoned, and also she longs for someone to sympathize herself, but not let herself ponder and wonder. It makes clear to Carrie that Drouet could not understand her. He just cares about her beauty. When Carrie is sorrow, he only asks her to dance. Carrie feels lonely and forsaken. What’s more, Carrie believes Drouet does not plan to marry her. He prefers the single free state to any legal bondage. These two sides wake to Carrie’s deep desire. She hopes to live an extravagant life but not from hand to mouth. She is eager to be understood and loved. Drouet is only an intermediary in her movement from poverty to affluence. Carrie is ready and longs to change. More wealth and higher status are Carrie’s new goal. At this time, Hurstwood bees another male stepladder to gratify her needs both in material and spirit. Hurstwood can give her a life of honor. Carrie recognizes the quality of Hurstwood’s clothes, his style and his bearing as distinct improvements on Drouet. Hurstwood shows his thoughts and feelings concerning Carrie. “In contrast, Hurstwood appeared strong and sincere. He had no easy manner of putting her off. He sympathized with her and showed her what her true value was. He needed her, while Drouet did not care.”【10】Though Carrie has achieved her material goal, all in all, she has a higher need love. Carrie begins to care about her inner thoughts, which takes the first step of exploring her spirit. Carrie’s spirit pursuit is based on material pursuit. The esteem needs advanced developmentAfter being Hurstwood’s mistress, in a material way, Carrie is considerably improved. Hurstwood writes her regularlya letter every morning. They both enjoy the happy days. Carrie has an opportunity to take part in a play. It is not an important thing, but because of the prestige of Hurstwood, it is significant. “By the time the 16th had arrived Hurstwood’s friends had rallied like Romans to a senator’s call. A welldressed, goodnatured, flatteringlyinclined audience was assured from the moment he thought of assisting Carrie.”【11】 “Without the interest of Hurstwood, the little hall would probably have been fortably filled, for the members of the lodge were moderately interesting in its welfare. Hurstwood’s word, however, had gone the rounds. It was to be a fulldress affair.”【12】 Carrie moves into a new environment. She feels the respect and power of celebrities. Carrie’s needs develop further: the esteem needs. That is the desire for confidence and appreciation. “There was nothing bold in her manner. Life had not taught her dominationsuperciliousness of grace, which is the lordly power of some women. Her longing for consideration was not sufficiently powerful to move her to demand it. Even now she lacked selfassurance, but there was that in what she had already experienced which left her a little less than timid. She wanted pleasure, she wanted position,” 【13】 For Carrie she is nervous. She hopes the play could succeed to gain confidence and appreciation, “The glamour, the tense situation, the fine clothes, the applause, these had lured her until she felt that she, too, could actthat she, too, could pel acknowledgement of power. ”【14】Carrie tries best to explore her potentials. The self actualization needsultimate goalHurstwood coaxes Carrie to elope to New York. But he is merely another man who either cannot hold or find a job. He forces to begin the battle for place and fort all over again. But his situation bees worse and worse. At the beginning, he strolls about, and then he just picks his papers up, and stays for day after day. At last, he bees a beggar pletely, lived by other’s charity. Finally he mitted suicide by turning on the gas in a Bowery flophouse. When the attraction of material disappears, it is inevitable for Carrie to abandon Hurstwood. The physiological and safety needs play an important role now. Carrie begins to make a livelihood on her own. Different from the former experience, this time, she is successful by her own power without depending on some other men. Carrie bees an actor because of her prettylook and her diligence. Her salary rises from 30 dollars to 150 dollars per week. She bees a famous star. She could possess of her gowns and carriage, her furniture and bank account. But “‘I don’t know,’ she said to Lola one day, sitting at one of the windows which looked down into Broadway, ‘ I get lonely。《嘉莉妹妹》的故事似乎在警示我們，在物質(zhì)越來越發(fā)達(dá)的今天，人們不應(yīng)該盲目追求物質(zhì)的享受，應(yīng)該充分認(rèn)識(shí)到精神帶給人們的幸福感和滿足感, 思索自己人生的意義和價(jià)值所在。本文主要依據(jù)馬斯洛不同層次需求理論，分析嘉莉在不同時(shí)期擁有不同需要的原因，即一方面是嘉莉內(nèi)在的欲望，另一方面是環(huán)境、城市的誘惑等外在因素。 hierarchy of needs從馬斯洛層次需要理論重新解讀《嘉莉妹妹》摘要《嘉莉妹妹》講述一位農(nóng)村女孩嘉莉不甘貧窮來到芝加哥實(shí)現(xiàn)自己的“美國(guó)夢(mèng)”，最終成為紐約百老匯一位著名的演員，享受奢華的物質(zhì)卻陷入精神迷失的故事。 desire。A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF SISITER CARRIE 《嘉莉妹妹》解讀June, 2007Xiaogan UniversityAbstractSister Carrie tells the story of a small country girl Carrie who moves to Chicago to realize her “American Dream” and eventually bees a Broadway star in New