【正文】 face looked pale and very bad. Kind Roberta took it as something wrong with him. Roberta was very foolish. Without any intention but the camera was still unconsciously pushed her with so much vehemence as not only to strike her lips and nose and chin, but also to throw her back sidewise toward the left wale which caused the boat to careen to water. Serried by Roberta?s sharp screen, Clyde rose and reached half to assist or recapture her and to apologize for the unintended blow. They both were as instantly thrown into the water. Regarding it as a good way to get rid of Roberta for it seemed like an accident, Clyde ignored Roberta?s crying for help. He was just looking aside while Roberta was drowning. Roberta?s tragedy could be ascribed to herself. She was very naive and easy to believe someone else. Roberta?s dream was established on the love that she could together with Clyde. She had not thinking independently. This was her defect. In her opinion, her feeling changed with Clyde. When Clyde was angry with her request of go to her home, she was afraid that Clyde hated her and no longer loved her. So, she obeyed Clyde39。 they even concocted false evidences to testify Clyde?s crimes as soon as possible to defraud trust of voters. While the Republicanism tried every way to exonerate for Clyde. In the ugly struggle, Clyde acted like a chessman, although he was the one directly involved. He even did not know what was going on earth. The ugly struggle between the too parties, and then, Clyde was sentenced to death more quickly. Thus, after over two years in prison, Clyde was made dead in an electric chair in the prison. His life was over at the age of 25. Ⅱ . Analysis of Roberta39。 they ignore it. Then, his attitude stocked the genteel public probably more than the others. Because he was born from poverty, and he had harsh experience of poverty, suffered enough distress from unemployment and poverty. He had enough knowledge and deep sympathy. In the early years, Dreiser was affected by social Darwinism, but from 1920s he turned to realism and even naturalism, as got large advance in the American literature history. As one of great American writer of naturalism, he was works were greatly influenced by Herbert Spenser, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Max and Honoree de Balzac in his works. B. A Brief Introduction of an American Tragedy An American Tragedy tells about a tragic story. The story was based on a popular murder case. In the story, Clyde was a less successful young man, driven by the desire for sex and money to murder his lover, and he did that in order to marry wealth. Finally, he was convicted and executed to death. Whatever of social and spirit, he was victim. From the book, Dreiser expressed a degree of critical and mercial success. There are three books in the novel. In the first book, the author describes Clyde?s life in Kansas. He was born in a poor missionary family。 Introduction Dreiser, who is very famous for the principal American exponents of literary naturalism, is one of the most influential authors in American literary history during the 20th century. As a great naturalistic writer, Dreiser does not fet the basic principle of naturalism. It is easy to find that the man characters? personality in American Tragedy is a sexual athlete and a man of elemental force who rises to a dominant position in business and society led by Roberta?s tragedy. It expresses the depth sympathy in his novels to Roberta and Clyde, which are drawing people?s attentions, so the novel is regarded as the greatest novel in American literary. American Tragedy based on an actual case tells the story of a social tragedy, in which a tiny successful young man killed his lover, sentenced to death at last. The novel highly criticizes the America legal system and expresses the course of the tragedy. Among all the ments on the causes of the tragedy, Charles Walcutl A. Waltonlitz, specifically makes an analysis about the causes of the tragedy. His idea is unique and profound for us to study. American Dream makes many young people lose their direction even lives. Most of the researches on American Tragedy are profound, and many theories have reasoned on the causes of Roberta?s tragedy that American Dream and American capitalist social system are the real origin of the tragedy. Roberta?s death stimulates researchers to study the cause of tragedy. At the same time, the novel arouses people?s attention of feminism. In 18th century, feminism was not popular, and many women had no equal rights. Through analysis of Roberta39。 克萊德 。 悲劇 。蘿貝塔的悲劇，不僅是她個(gè)人的悲劇，也是美國(guó)眾多女性的悲劇的寫照。本文通過介紹作者的生平，以及對(duì)《美國(guó)悲劇》這部小說中的人物蘿貝塔的悲劇成因進(jìn)行分析，說明在美國(guó)拜金主義，享樂主義和個(gè)人主義盛行的社會(huì)里，人在本能和社會(huì)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(mèng)。 American Dream. 摘 要 美國(guó)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(guó)社會(huì)的種種問題，抨擊了美國(guó)社會(huì)高雅面紗下圍繞金錢而產(chǎn)生的種種丑惡現(xiàn)象。 Roberta。The Tragedy of Roberta in American Tragedy 論《美國(guó)悲劇》中蘿貝塔的悲劇性 Abstract A pioneer of naturalism in American literature, Theodore Dreiser equally deserves a place in American literature for his vigorous attack on the genteel tradition and his long and active interest in American social problem. Showing the readers an actual American society that is maintained with money worship, hedonism, individualism, his works make the readers so suffering and so astonished that some readers could hardly bear. In this paper, a brief introduction is given to Dreiser?s life and the critical story of An American Tragedy, and then the causes of Roberta?s tragedy are analyzed. Through analysis the real origin of the tragedy is exposed to be the evil capitalist social system, and Roberta?s tragedy is also the American females? tragedy. Key Words Theodore Dreiser。 tragedy。 Clyde。其作品以其史無前例的大膽寫實(shí)為美國(guó)文學(xué)在現(xiàn)實(shí)主義協(xié)作的發(fā)展開辟了道路，也為作家在美國(guó)文學(xué)界乃至世界文學(xué)界贏得了極高的 榮譽(yù)。但在美國(guó)的社會(huì)環(huán)境下，結(jié)果往往是悲劇的。 關(guān)鍵詞 西奧多 ?德萊塞 。 蘿貝塔 。 美國(guó)夢(mèng)。s tragedy, we ca