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Theodore Dreiser, born in Terre Haute,
Indiana, USA,
was
raised
in
poverty
and
in
a
German-
speaking
environment.
He
left home for Chicago at age 16. After a period of
odd
jobs and a year at the University
of Indiana, he became a
Midwestern
newspaper
reporter
and,
in
New
York
after
1894,
a
magazine
feature
writer.
In
1892,
married
Sara
White,
but
their marriage wasn’t happy, so they
have been separated
since 1909 and
never officially divorced
Sister Carrie
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19
00
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，
his first
and still highly
regarded novel, was
withheld from general distribution
because
of
it
was
supposed
amoral,
and
its
commercial
failure plunged
him into financial distress and mental
breakdown. Some reasons which caused
the difficulties of
publish
can
be
seen
from
the
social
background
of
the
society
of
that
time.
At
the
time,
United
States
is
experiencing a rapid social change, it
was transforming
from
free
capitalism
transition
to
the
monopoly
capitalism.
The whole
American literature was indulged in idealism,
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many writers preferred to describe the
optimistic aspect
of life. The novel is
regarded as entertainment products;
works is full of illusory ideal and
covered by romantic
color.
The
exploiter
and
exploitee
lived
a
completely
different
life.
The
ugly
phenomenon
in
the
society
was
not
reflected in literature works. In
Sister Carrie, Dreiser
truthfully
reveals the dark side of the social life, and
that’s
the
reason
why
the
author
constantly
suffered
from
persecution.
The
novels
have
been
classified
as
banned,
and
can not be published in the America.
Sister Carrie is about a
young country girl who moves
to
the
big
city
where
she
starts
realizing
her
own
American
Dream, first as a
mistress to men that she perceives as
superior,
and
later
becoming
a
famous
actress.
It
has
been
called the greatest of all American
urban novels.
The
personal
life
of
the
writer
has
very
close
relationship with his work Sister
Carrie. There are some
similarities
between
the
author
and
the
heroine.
First,
the
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heroine
was
born
in
a
poor
family
just
as
same
as
the
author.
That’s
why
the
author
can
know
so
clearly
about
the
psychological
activity
of
the
poor
girl
Carrie
and
described
it
in
such
delicate
words.
Second,
it
can
be
seen
from
the
novel
that
the
place
where
the
girl
chase
her
dream
was
Chicago.
The
author
also
has
gone
to
the
same
place
to
fulfill
his
dream.
So
he
saw
what
Carrie
saw.
For
instance,
how
the
rich
men
lived,
how
they
enjoy
their
life,
what
was
the poor’s life like,
wit
h such a living experience, the
gap between the rich and the poor was
so truly reflected
before our eyes.
Third, they all once are earning meager
support from menial jobs. Forth, they
all have the same
dream. Dreiser has
admitted that he was once chased after
the
pleasure
from
material
things,
but
he
despised
it
afterwar
ds.
Carrie’s life was always surrounded by her
chasing for a better material life. At
the beginning, she
left her hometown
and came for her sister. But when her
sister’s living couldn’t
attr
act her anymore, she went
to the salesman Drouet, then Hursthood
and at last the
theater. Except the
heroine, the character Hursthood was
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