【正文】 zhi, 1996:67) Therefore, Carrie would like to make a decision of living with Drouet. It will be better life than before. However, she feels ashamed because of obeying the moralities. This would not in favor of everything society taught. It is fantastic for any respectable woman to live with a man without marriage. But she breaks out of the family convention. Staying with Drouet, Carrie gets security and an escape from work to which she is temperamentally unsuited. But she is still troubled, it is not her own to live with Drouet who is not her husband, she knows it is not accepted by the social morality in that society. Thus she ever asks Drouet 黑龍江大學劍橋?qū)W院畢業(yè)論文 5 to marry her. “Why don’t we get married”, she said. But Drouet always answers: “well, we will.” As a novel wrote, “l(fā)et him meet with a young woman once, he would approach her with an air of kindly familiarity.” (Donald Pizer, 2020:58) He makes a conversation with Carrie at first is a way of being attracted. We can make a conclusion that he dose not plan to marry her and give her a stable life at all. Under this circumstance, she knows that Drouet can not give her steady love, while marriage is important to Carrie. The appearance of Hurstwood makes Carrie new hope. As a woman who really wants to own her thought, municates with other person in mind. She discovers Hurstwood is better than Drouet and agrees to leave Drouet. A Lonely Time Drouet introduces Carrie to his friend Hurstwood, the manager of Fitzgerald and Moy’s, a saloon in Chicago. When Carrie plays card with Mr. Hurstwood, she finds Hurstwood is far more clever and elegant than Drouet. Then she gets in touch with him when Drouet is out of home. Carrie gradually is attracted by Mr. Hurstwood and even falls in love with him. He tells Carrie that he loves her, but he fails to mention that he is married. Hurstwood has a high social position, the established home and family. However, in reality, he is not satisfied with the surface of performing. He is not own real authority in his family. In another words, the authority belongs to her wife in law. When he meets Carrie, he concerns to the theater with Carrie. He regains his selfesteem. They love and care with each other. Carrie believes she meets a right man and has a real love. She does not know she is cheated. But she feels so disappointed when she knows the truth through Drouet. After Hurstwood’s wife discovered the affair with Carrie, he made a decision. He gives up his good reputation and his family, managed to leave for New York with Carrie. Because of lacking money, he steals much money from Fitzgerald. Carrie is told that they would have a new life in New York. And Hurstwood would 黑龍江大學劍橋?qū)W院畢業(yè)論文 6 like to marry her. Carrie thinks she gets Hurstwood’s love and he owns wealth. They would be happy in another city. So she pursues her real love bravely. She begins her new life with Hurstwood. Nevertheless, the new life is not good. She has realized Hurstwood lost many things such as money, good social position, and good reputation by that time. Although Hurstwood struggles to find a job, and tries his best to regain his lost things, the life is not good either. When Hurstwood has almost not enough money, Carrie decides that she has to find a job to support their life. Soon she gets a job as an actor in a theatre with her effort. As her career rises and her social status gets higher. She realizes Hurstwood is no longer the man she admires. Therefore, she es to the conclusion that she should leave him. She believes her ability would be supported herself without Hurstwood. Meanwhile, Hurstwood is accepted Carrie’s choice and he would not like to be Carrie’s burden. At the end, Carrie pursues her career and successfully established her status, when Hurstwood bees poor. Although she bees a success, her life is alone. As far as I am concerned, as a woman, Carrie is more brave and confident even independent. 黑龍江大學劍橋?qū)W院畢業(yè)論文 7 3 Feminist Reflected in Carrie The Definition of Feminist Feminism is a relatively recent term for the politics of equal rights for women. The terms feminism or feminist firstly appeared in France and Netherlands in 1872 (as les f233。 influence。 關鍵詞 ： 人物性格；女性主義；影響；生存現(xiàn)狀 黑龍江大學劍橋?qū)W院畢業(yè)論文 ii Abstract In the history of American literature, Sister Carrie is the first novel of Theodore Dreiser, it impresses people deeply. Carrie, a poor country girl, bees a famous star in a big city. She has totally changed from her hard experiences, and she bees financially independent as a new woman when she goes through hesitation. In the whole novel, the author has planted some strong points of Carrie’s character. He also has planted an attitude of being confident and optimistic for Carrie under adverse circumstances. She marches forward without hesitation when she faces defeat. Carrie never gives up to her fate and she has a sunny outlook on life. It is worthy of analyzing such a legendary character. In recent years, Carrie’s character has been reviewed from naturalism, consumerism and American dream. However, this paper tries to reinterpret the main character of Carrie in three different stages from feminist. She has characters which belong to women. It also reads the influence of feminism upon Carrie that bines three aspects for the initiative in Carrie’s own hand, Carrie’s independence and the attitude towards frustration. At the end of this paper, it analyzes women’s status in modern time from two aspects of the improvement of female’s social status and the parison between men and women. Keywords: character。文章還包括從自主選擇性、獨立性、面對挫折的態(tài)度三方面來解讀女性主義對嘉莉自身