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1、11页第TheSpecificReflectionofAmericanDreamonCarrie’sViewofLoveⅠ.IntroductionTheodoreDreiserisoneofthemostinfluentialauthorsinthehistoryofAmericanliterature.HisfirstworkSisterCarrie,whichispublishedin1900,isconsideredtobeabannedbookbecauseitexposesthepolarizationofrichandpoorandanomic.Nowadays,
2、theworkisfullofthetendencyofnaturalism,whichisconsideredtobeaclassicalone.Thebookdescribestheheroinewhostepstothelipsoflustanddesire.Asforher,humanbeingsarethesameasanimalsandpestswhoaredrivenbydesire,andunabletoextricatefromherplight.Butonlytheword“desire”cannotillustratethemotivationanddri
3、vingforcebehindherindetails.Therefore,mythesiswouldliketoillustratetheprocessofbeingfromacountrygirltoafamousstarofBroadwayandherviewtowardsloveandlife.Asformypart,herchangeisaspecificreflectionofAmericandream.Dreiserisbornin1871anddiesin1945duringtheperiodofNaturalism.Heisthe12thchildofthe1
4、3children,hisparentsbeingGermanimmigrants.Heislivingingreatpovertyandmisery,andbeinghumiliatedbythemisbehaviorofhisbrothersandsisters.DreiserfleestoChicagoattheageof15,wherehebeginsaseriesofmenialjobs.Finallyhegetsajobonanewspaperandbeginsacareerasafree-lancejournalistandmagazineeditor.Thish
5、elpshimalotforhisfuturewriting.HehasevervisitedRussiaandhasstrongsympathiesforcommunismforthosepeoplehauntedbypoverty.ThenhejointstheAmericanCommunistpartybeforehisdeath.HeisthefirstoutstandingauthorinthehistoryofAmericanliteratureduringthe20thcentury.In1930,SinclairLewissaysthatTheodoreDrei
6、sercannotreceiveothers’appreciation,instead,onlyhatredandenvy.ComparedwithanyAmericanauthor,hedevelopsanewstyleoranewmethodofhisown,andtakeshiscourageinbothhands.InthefieldofAmericannovels,hechangeshiswritingstylefromgentletoloyalty,audacityandthepassionoflife.ManyofAmericancriticsbelievetha
7、tDreiserisloyaltolife,dauntlessandcreative,whobreakstheduranceoftraditionalliteraryworld,liberateAmericannovelsandbringaliteraryrevolution.JustasH.L.Menckenhaseversaid,Dreiser’schangeofwritingstyleisthesameasVinci’schangeonbiology.However,TheodoreD