1、SisterCarrie,PPT by 杨华 杨弦音 杨睿滢,Theodore Dreiser,Theodore Dreiser （ 18711945） He is considered as one of the three famous American novelistsafter World War I,together with Faulkner and Hemingway. Dreisers Major Works：1) Sister Carrie 2) Jennie Gerhardt 3)An American Tragedy,Author,Sister Carrie,Siste
2、r Carrie (1900) is a novel wrote by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city Chicago where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men, and later becomes a famous actress. It has been called the “greatest of all American urban novels“ and was
3、made into a movie by William Wyler in 1952. (Carrie 1952),A Main Characters B Plot Summary C Analysis,Main Characters,Main Characters,Carrie, a beautiful and poor girl from rural area,Minnie , Carries elder sister in Chicago；Sven，Minnies husband,Hurstwood, Carries second lover, a sophisticated manag
4、er,Lola, a chorus girl Carrie meets in New York.,Drouet, Carries first lover, a traveling salesman,Julia, Hurstwoods wife，likes social-climbing.,Robert, a handsome young scholar whom Carrie regards as a male ideal.,Plot Summary,PAST,PRESENT,FUTURE,Plot Summary,Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wis
5、consin home, 18-year-old Carrie takes the train to Chicago, where her elder sister Minnie, and Minnies husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman with fine clothing and manners , who is attracted by her because of her beauty and
6、unspoiled manner. They exchange contact information. But upon arriving at her sisters flat, Carrie soon realizes that the Hansons expect her to find a job and pay them rent.,The beginging of the story:,Carrie takes a job in a shoe factory. Before long, she is shocked by the coarse manners of factory
7、 workers and the squalid factory conditions.One day, after an illness that costs her job, she encounters Drouet on a downtown street. Once again taken by her beauty, and moved by her poverty, Drouet persuades her to leave her sister and live with him.The next day, she writes a good-bye note to Minni
8、e and moves in with Drouet.,Drouet installs her in a much larger apartment, and their relationship intensifies.When Drouet introduces Carrie to George Hurstwood, the manager of Fitzgerald and Moys(a respectable bar), Hurstwood,who is dissatisfied with and distant from his social-climbing wife and ch
9、ildren, instantly becomes infatuated with Carries youth and beauty. Before long they start an affair and date secretly.,The affair is uncovered: Drouet discovers he has been cuckolded, Carrie knows that Hurstwood is married, and Hurstwoods wife, Julia, learns Hurstwood has been dating with another w
10、oman. After a night of drinking, Hurstwood agrees to marry Carrie, and lures Carrie to leave with him. The couple finally move to New York City.In New York, Hurstwood and Carrie rent a flat. At first, Hurstwood is able to provide Carrie with a satisfactory standard of living. However, the couple gro
11、w distant and Hurstwood abandons fine manners towards Carrie.,climax,There she meets Robert Ames, her neighbors cousin, a bright young scholar from Indiana, he introduces the idea to her that great arts, rather than showy materials, are worthy of admiration.,After only a few years,Hurstwood discover
12、s that his savings are running out and urges Carrie to work. Carrie turns to New Yorks theatres for employment and becomes a chorus girl. As the rapidly aging Hurstwood declines into obscurity, Carrie begins to rise from a chorus girl to a famous actress. She establishes a friendship with another ch
13、orus girl, Lola, who begins to urge Carrie to live with her.Finally,Carrie abandons Hurstwood and leaves a farewell note with twenty dollars.,the Ending,Hurstwood finally becomes a beggar. Fallen to standing in line for bread and charity, he commits suicide in a flophouse. Meanwhile, Carrie achieves
14、 stardom, but finds that money and fame cant bring her happiness and nothing will.,To promote the development, the author uses character-image description and environmental description（background and natural environment）.,ANALYSIS,She moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly
15、 at any opportunities for a better existence.She has no control, no freedom of will.She is a slave to her heredity and to her environment.,Carrie,Carrie: innocent, simple; hard-working;romantic, realistic; vain,Drouet is a charming,flashy salesman with a strong appetite for romance.Although he is wa
16、rm-hearted,he never takes any of his romantic affairs seriously.He promises to marry her,but never really intends to.Finally,he loses Carrie.,Charlie Drouet,Hurstwood is the manager of a saloon in Chicago. At the beginning of the novel,he is a wealthy man.Hurstwood falls in love with Carrie after me
17、eting her through Drouet but he fails to tell Carrie the truth that he is married.Finally,his wife discovers his affair with Carrie and files for divorce, Hurstwood steals ten thousand dollars from the saloon and flees with Carrie to Montreal.,George Hurstwood,The Themes,Dreams（American dream） Succe
18、ss Destruction Happiness Selfishness Pursuit Vain,then,then,hy,American social value concept : money is the center.,Carrie can depend on nobody in the strange city. Her sister can not take in her for a long time especially after she quit her job. It is much more difficult for her to find a way to su
19、pport her life.Some people divide the story into three parts: life with her sister, life with Drouet and life with Hurstwood. But I want to divide Carriers life into three parts according to three different men appearing in her lifeDrouet, Hurstwood and Ames. They present different spiritual pursue
20、of Carrier although Ames didnt appear a lot.,Firstly, Carrier accepts Drouet just for a stable life and out of emptiness. But we should pay attention to that she must make a decision whether to go back or stay in the city at that time. She wants to stay so Drouet became her only choice. Here some pe
21、ople may despise her but we should see that she never really gives up to life. Nobody can be young forever but culture and educated manner makes a womans charm last forever. Carrier gets this and tries to enrich herself for the future.The acting debut in the melodrama is a good example.,Then she fal
22、ls in love with Hurstwood who is a little more intelligent than Drouet. Living with Hurstwood makes Carrier mature and see the shallowness of Hurstwood. In the first year, they live a happy life. No matter what Carrie does, she always tries her best. As a housewife, she endeavors to create a comfort
23、able life for her husband; she studies the art of making biscuit and decorates their home. Three years flies, Hurstwood starts to become morose and less inclined to greet his customers, and what he earns cannot make ends meet. At that moment, brave Carrie decides to find work.,While Ames appears to
24、be a wise man who regards the life of upper class as hypocricy. It is he who inspires Carriers spiritual pursuit. At that time, she is not the naive Carrier and turns to pursue the enrichment in spirit. Carrie always gives money to those beggars on the way to Broadway.,More: http:/ Analysis of the Image of Sister Carrie http:/ About Hurstwood,
