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嘉莉妹妹是其同名小说的女主人公，她从威斯康辛州来到了芝加哥，在残酷的城市环境中实现了跻身上流社会的飞跃。小说着力描写了她的这种蜕变。起初，她只不过是一个穷困的乡下人。然而，最后却意外的转变为一个光芒四射的女演员。但一切并没有看起来那么理想，相反的，是一段掺杂了挣扎与堕落的历程。
 
关键词：嘉丽，蜕变，飞跃， 堕落
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Analysis of the Character of Carrie
 
ABSTRACT
 
 
Sister Carrie is the young protagonist of the novel of the same name who moves from Wiscons to Chicago and accomplishes her rise to aristocracy in the cutthroat city environment. This novel mainly depicts this girl’s metamorphosis. At first, she is no more than a poor bumpkin. However, in the end, she unexpectedly transforms into a glamorous actress. Yet, things by no means are as idealized as they appear to be. On the contrary, it is a process of struggle along with degeneration.
 
Keywords:  Carrie, metamorphosis, rise, degeneration
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
INTRODUCTION
 
Sister Carrie is an immortal work of Theodore Dreiser, which is justly ranked among the best novels of the world literature. It has never lost its significance even with the passage of time. In reverse, the work achieves more and more widening popularity as it always has certain allusions to contemporary affairs. The novel is so splendid that even can touch people’s heart chords after more than one hundred years.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The process of Carrie’s transformation
Chapter Ⅰ 
 
 
Carrie, at the beginning, impresses the reader as a simple and innocent girl. More importantly, she possesses the unspoiled beauty as well as the well-developed figure, which dooms to be her chief asset and also foreshadows the ills in her later life.
 
From very beginning to the end, her life is driven by the desire. As a poor country girl, she is not content with the frivolous and stiff life in countryside. Lured by her fancy about the luxurious life in large city, she frightened yet determined to set foot on the journey to the dazzled Chicago. On the train, her simple prettiness captures the eyes of the traveling salesman. Carrie had intended not to respond to Drouet. However, she does not succeed in restraining herself. Overwhelmed by Drouet,’s magnetism and stylish dress, Carrie engages in the talk with Drouet. It seems that, right from this moment on, Carrie starts to act according to outside world and accept what happens to her.
 
After intense job hunting, she gets a chance to work on the assembly line, which is far from a satisfying. The squalid working conditions coupled with the coarse manner of the man and woman in the factory really dishearten her. What is worse, her painstaking toiling can only win a meager wage whose bulk goes to her sisters’ as rent payment. She can not even save enough money for a warmer coat. Therefore, she falls ill upon the arrival of the cold weather. Meanwhile, she loses this hard-earned job. After the recovery, she has to go to downtown to seek job again. By accident, she encounters Drouet. Having known her fix, Drouet gives her money, buys her clothes and even offers her a nice room. Then, as it is schemed by Drouet, she shacks up with him thus becomes a kept woman. Later on, Drouet introduces Geogre Hurstwood—the manager of a respectable saloon to her. Hurstwood who is unhappy with his family life, is favorably disposed to Carrie. Carrie also secretly infatuated with Hurstwood’s pleasant address and graceful bearing.
 
Hurstwood persuades himself to court Carrie when he catches Drouet dating with a well-dressed lady. He frequents Carrie’s place and they meets each other secretly when Drouet is away. Subconsciously, Carrie holds that Drouet is a passport for her to enter the upper- class circle. They two are deeply attached to one another with each passing day.
 
Hurstwood’s indifference towards household somehow arouses his wife’s suspicion. Before long, she discovered Hurstwood’s affairs with Carrie via friends. Without much hesitation,, she sets about the divorced proceedings. Meantime, Carrie is informed of the fact that Hurstwood is supposedly married. Carrie felt terribly hurt after confirming this fact.
 
She decides to see Hurstwood no more. Meanwhile Hurstwood also find himself in a awkward situation especially under his wife threatening. Impelled by intense desire to get Carrie, he takes the cash from the unprotected safe. Then Hurstwood deceives Carrie to take the train which is supposed to take her to see Drouet. His seemingly sincere plea again succeeds in swaying Carrie’s determination. She accepted to run away with him. Carrie firmly believes that she will lead the life that she has always dreamed of. However, things again do not turn out the way she has anticipated.
 
In the New York, Hurstwood has to go all out in work for existence. Carrie is gradually disillusioned by the stale life and financial straits. She is still devoid of fine dress and elegant associates. She even finds she does not love Hurstwood greatly. Due to influence of the Mrs. Vance, Carrie’s desire for material enjoyment increases day by day, while, Hurstwood becomes more and more despondent. Meantime, his saving is running out Carrie has to seek job again. She becomes a chorus girl and soon is promoted to make good money. Another chorus girl advises Carrie to movie in with her. Hurstwood gets a job as scab on Brooklyn Street during the strike. This experience really makes him physically injured and mentally affected. He utterly sank into the depth of hopelessness after Carrie’s leave. Driven to the wall, Hurstwood joins the homeless, and declined into a beggar. Carrie never lives up to the chance and turns into a high-paid and renowned actress, while Hurstwood turns on the gas and chooses to commit suicide. His nameless body is buried in the Potter’s Field. Carrie is even not aware of Hurstwood’s death.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The analysis of Carrie’s character
Chapter Ⅱ
 
2.1 The Conventional Perspective on The character of The Carrie
 
As far as the moral code concerned, Carrie decidedly is a fallen woman. She boards with a man whom she meets on the train with little acquaintance. Later on, she has illicit intercourse with the first man’s friend who has already been married. Then she drops the second man when he becomes the burden and barrier on her path through well-off life.

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