Money and morality in theodore dreiser’s novel " sister carrie" contents

MONEY AND MORALITY IN THEODORE DREISER’S NOVEL
“SISTER CARRIE”


CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................ 3
CHAPTER I. Theodore Dreiser American Writer………………………………5
1.1. The life and work of Theodor Dreiser …………………………………………5
1.2. Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie"………………………….…………...………….8
CHAPTER II The theme of American capitalism in Theodore Dreiser's novel An Sister Carrie ……………………………………………………..…….……..12
2.1. The impact and features of the “Sister Carrie” …………..…………………....12
2.2. Sister Carrie Morality and Ethics……………….……….…………………….19
Conclusion…………….………………………………………………………….27
LITERATURE……………….…………………………………………………..28

INTRODUCTION
We can see Carrie is a pretty young girl whom Dreiser uses to express his own longings for wealth and affection.
The glitter and excitement of the city has come to symbolize the possibility for the realization of the American
Dream. Dreiser himself had been born in poverty. When he was young, he did odd jobs to subsidize his family spending. He became a newspaper boy, a shop assistant, a lower clerk etc. Therefore he doesn’t regard her as sinful. In his novel, Dreiser emphasizes the determinism. The mechanical power makes everything inevitable.
Carrie rises to be a successful theatrical star from a country girl and accedes to the bourgeois upper class;
Hurst wood sinks to ruin from a manager to be a beggar and eventually suicide. All this can’t show the individual power or powerlessness. On the contrary, it is the mechanical power that pushes them to that position. What the author wants to say is that there is no cause-result relationship between diligence and success, and people cannot control over her life in bourgeois society.
The actuality of the course paper: When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.' The tale of Sister Carrie rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurst wood’s slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser's remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author's final version.