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1、12页第TheSpecificReflectionofAmericanDreamonCarrie’sViewofLoveⅠ.IntroductionTheodoreDreiserisoneofthemostinfluentialauthorsinthehistoryofAmericanliterature.HisfirstworkSisterCarrie,whichispublishedin1900,isconsideredtobeabannedbookbecauseitexposesthepolarizati
2、onofrichandpoorandanomic.Nowadays,theworkisfullofthetendencyofnaturalism,whichisconsideredtobeaclassicalone.Thebookdescribestheheroinewhostepstothelipsoflustanddesire.Asforher,humanbeingsarethesameasanimalsandpestswhoaredrivenbydesire,andunabletoextricatefro
3、mherplight.Butonlytheword“desire”cannotillustratethemotivationanddrivingforcebehindherindetails.Therefore,mythesiswouldliketoillustratetheprocessofbeingfromacountrygirltoafamousstarofBroadwayandherviewtowardsloveandlife.Asformypart,herchangeisaspecificreflec
4、tionofAmericandream.Dreiserisbornin1871anddiesin1945duringtheperiodofNaturalism.Heisthe12thchildofthe13children,hisparentsbeingGermanimmigrants.Heislivingingreatpovertyandmisery,andbeinghumiliatedbythemisbehaviorofhisbrothersandsisters.DreiserfleestoChicagoa
5、ttheageof15,wherehebeginsaseriesofmenialjobs.Finallyhegetsajobonanewspaperandbeginsacareerasafree-lancejournalistandmagazineeditor.Thishelpshimalotforhisfuturewriting.HehasevervisitedRussiaandhasstrongsympathiesforcommunismforthosepeoplehauntedbypoverty.Then
6、hejointstheAmericanCommunistpartybeforehisdeath.HeisthefirstoutstandingauthorinthehistoryofAmericanliteratureduringthe20thcentury.In1930,SinclairLewissaysthatTheodoreDreisercannotreceiveothers’appreciation,instead,onlyhatredandenvy.ComparedwithanyAmericanaut
7、hor,hedevelopsanewstyleoranewmethodofhisown,andtakeshiscourageinbothhands.InthefieldofAmericannovels,hechangeshiswritingstylefromgentletoloyalty,audacityandthepassionoflife.ManyofAmericancriticsbelievethatDreiserisloyaltolife,dauntlessandcreative,whobreaksth
8、eduranceoftraditionalliteraryworld,liberateAmericannovelsandbringaliteraryrevolution.JustasH.L.Menckenhaseversaid,Dreiser’schangeofwritingstyleisthesameasVinci’schangeonbiology.However,TheodoreD