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1、12页第TheSpecificReflectionofAmericanDreamonCarrie’sViewofLoveⅠ.IntroductionTheodoreDreiserisoneofthemostinfluentialauthorsinthehistoryofAmericanliterature.HisfirstworkSisterCarrie,whichispublishedin1900,isconsideredtobeabannedbookbecauseitexposesthepolari
2、zationofrichandpoorandanomic.Nowadays,theworkisfullofthetendencyofnaturalism,whichisconsideredtobeaclassicalone.Thebookdescribestheheroinewhostepstothelipsoflustanddesire.Asforher,humanbeingsarethesameasanimalsandpestswhoaredrivenbydesire,andunabletoextr
3、icatefromherplight.Butonlytheword“desire”cannotillustratethemotivationanddrivingforcebehindherindetails.Therefore,mythesiswouldliketoillustratetheprocessofbeingfromacountrygirltoafamousstarofBroadwayandherviewtowardsloveandlife.Asformypart,herchangeisasp
4、ecificreflectionofAmericandream.Dreiserisbornin1871anddiesin1945duringtheperiodofNaturalism.Heisthe12thchildofthe13children,hisparentsbeingGermanimmigrants.Heislivingingreatpovertyandmisery,andbeinghumiliatedbythemisbehaviorofhisbrothersandsisters.Dreise
5、rfleestoChicagoattheageof15,wherehebeginsaseriesofmenialjobs.Finallyhegetsajobonanewspaperandbeginsacareerasafree-lancejournalistandmagazineeditor.Thishelpshimalotforhisfuturewriting.HehasevervisitedRussiaandhasstrongsympathiesforcommunismforthosepeopleh
6、auntedbypoverty.ThenhejointstheAmericanCommunistpartybeforehisdeath.HeisthefirstoutstandingauthorinthehistoryofAmericanliteratureduringthe20thcentury.In1930,SinclairLewissaysthatTheodoreDreisercannotreceiveothers’appreciation,instead,onlyhatredandenvy.Co
7、mparedwithanyAmericanauthor,hedevelopsanewstyleoranewmethodofhisown,andtakeshiscourageinbothhands.InthefieldofAmericannovels,hechangeshiswritingstylefromgentletoloyalty,audacityandthepassionoflife.ManyofAmericancriticsbelievethatDreiserisloyaltolife,daun
8、tlessandcreative,whobreakstheduranceoftraditionalliteraryworld,liberateAmericannovelsandbringaliteraryrevolution.JustasH.L.Menckenhaseversaid,Dreiser’schangeofwritingstyleisthesameasVinci’schangeonbiology.However,TheodoreD
