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1、American Naturalism he also promises to marry her, but he never really intends to. He loses Carrie to Hurstwood and then, years later, after she has become a famous actress, tries unsuccessfully to win her back.,George Hurstwood,George Hurstwood is the manager of a saloon in Chicago. At the beginnin
2、g of the novel, he is a wealthy, important man. He falls in love with Carrie after meeting her through Drouet. He tells Carrie that he loves her, but he fails to mention that he is married. After his wife discovers his affair with Carrie and files for divorce, he steals ten thousand dollars from the
3、 saloon and flees with Carrie to Montreal.,George Hurstwood,There, he marries her before his divorce with Julia is complete. Although he keeps his theft a secret from Carrie, he is discovered by an investigator and required to return most of the money in order to protect his reputation. In New York,
4、 Hurstwood slowly descends into poverty. After Carrie leaves him, he becomes a homeless beggar and eventually commits suicide.,George Hurstwood,If Carrie is the positive example of the theory that the fittest survive, then Hurstwood is negative evidence. He is driven by his instinctive drives and el
5、opes with Carrie to a new environment. He is still conventional and cannot throw abruptly away the long-held social morals. Therefore he is not fitted to live in New York. He has failed because he leaves his original place. His tragedy is the triumphs of the natural desires and of the theory that th
6、e fittest survive.,Themes,life is predetermined the fittest survive American Dream materialism Change and Transformation Choices and Consequences Wealth and Poverty,Dreisers Writing Style,Without good construction Deficient characterization Lack in imagination Simple words Journalistic method of rei
7、teration重复新闻手法 Techniques in painting (word-picture, sharp contrast, truth in color, movement in outline),Evaluation on Theodore Dreiser,1) Dreiser has been a controversial figure in American literary history. His works are powerful in their portrayal of the changing American life, but his style is
8、considered crude. He showed a new way of presenting reality and inspired the writers of the 1920s with courage and insight. It is in Dreisers works that American naturalism is said to have come of age. 2) He embraced social Darwinism. He learned to regard man as merely an animal driven by greed and
9、lust in a struggle for existence in which only the fittest, the most ruthless, survive. Human tragedy comes as a result of the collision between mans biological needs and societys ruthless manipulation.,3) It is Dreisers announced intention to report the coarse and the vulgar and the cruel and the t
10、errible in life in defiance of the genteel and evasive current literature with which he had absolutely no patience and sympathy. 4) Dreisers writings reveal a tremendous vital lust for life with a conviction that man is the end and measure of all things in a world which is devoid of purpose and stan
11、dards.,Although Dreisers novels are formless at times and awkwardly written and his characterization is found deficient and his prose pedestrian and dull, yet his very energy proves to be more than a compensation. 6) He is good at employing the journalistic method of reiteration to burn a central impression into the readers mind. His interest in painting is reflected in his taste for word-pictures, sharp contrast, truth in color, and movement in outline.,Thanks!,