Query: Sister Carrie

title: Study on Sister Carrie's Purity from the Society and Her Nature
abstract: Dreiser's Sister Carrie often has negative comments,while her pursuit of happiness and ideal with pure faith under the dark social environment deserve study.Her characters shown in the struggle of life and her love affairs has been stated,which proves Carrie'purity in chasing dreams in the dirty society.

title: On Sister Carrie from Feminist Perspective and its Influence on Chinese Modern Women
abstract: Sister Carrie is a famous naturalistic novelist Theodore Dreiser's first novel in the first 20th century.It tells a story of a young rural woman Carrie how to become the red Broadway actress from the bottom of society,and the story vividly depicts the survival state and psychological and ideological process of Carrie.When it was published,it attracted attentions of critics from domestic and abroad at large,and they researched it from different perspectives.But most of their researches discussed from the materialism angle to concern with the expression of Determinism and Darwinism.So far,few people made the research from the topic of Carrie's pursuit of self achievement and perspective of feminist.Actually,not only did Carrie restrict on the material pursuit,but also boldly in pursuit of the self achievement of new women.This paper aims at Carrie how to pursue the selfachievement of new women,and the influence of feminist to Chinese modern women.

title: Pleasure Seeking Personality Reflected In Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (2005) A Psychoanalytic Approach
abstract: The aim of this research is to describe 'Sister Carrie' novel based on structural elements of the novel and to analyze how pleasure seeking personality is reflected in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie by using psychoanalytic approach. This research is qualitative research and technique of analyzing data is descriptive analysis. The techniques of collecting data are (1) Reading the novel repeatedly and underlying the important data. (2) Exploring the main data of character that will be analyzed. (3) Identifying a particular part that is important and relevant for the analysis. (4) Making note both primary and secondary data, and (5) Classifying the data into some categories. Based on the psychoanalytic theory, it can be concluded that the personality of major character in 'Sister Carrie' is classified as pleasure seeking personality. Carrie's Id is more dominant than Ego and superego. Carrie's personality is caused by economic situation.

title: The Social Transformation with the American The Social Transformation with the American Dream Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser
abstract: In the transformation of the social transformation period, Theodore Dreiser wrote the first novel "Sister Carrie" that is like a spring thunder exploding the whole American society. Just as it comes to be published, in which the hero of the novel Sister Carrie becomes a controversial figure. This article mainly analysis through the text of Sister Carrie how to pursuit her own "American dream" and the social transformation under the "American dream",in order to explore the human desire.

title: Theodore Dreiser's First Novel (to the 115th Anniversary of "Sister Carrie's" Publishing)
abstract: The article is devoted to Theodore Dreiser's skill as a writer of a novel. His first book "Sister Carrie" characterized his writer's manner in which the author was unhurried deliberate and thorough master. In his first novel Th. Dreiser shows himself as a deep psychologist and stylist. "Sister Carrie" is a landmark in the history of American literature as well as in the history of world realistic literature of the XXth century.

title: The Rovers in the Metropolises Full of Desires Rereading "Sister Carrie"
abstract: "Sister Carrie" is a representative work of American naturalistic writer Theodore Dreiser.In this novel,the protagonist sister Carrie was a rural girl,born in a small place,and she pursued her dream and life in the metropolis.She had the virtue of simpleness,self improvement and persistence,but also along with the social defects of vanity,corruption and enjoyment.She represented many girls with dreams in the realistic society and even many rural migrant laborers in big cities.The paper analyzed Carrie's living environments and her character and then expounded the rovers of the metropolises full of desires in the real life.

title: Yearning toward Carrie Buck
abstract: That November day, Carrie had already been locked up for five months, her mother for four years. I read the histories, track the dates, trace the chronology. This story starts in so many places all at once. Starts with Carrie's mother Emma being arrested, deemed feebleminded, and committed to the Colony for alleged sex work. Starts with the Virginia state legislature passing the Eugenical Sterilization Act, which makes state mandated and coerced sterilization legal. Starts with Carrie being raped by a nephew of her foster family and becoming pregnant. Starts with her naming that nephew, calling him out as a rapist. Starts with her foster family, the Dobbs, reacting by declaring Carrie feebleminded and committing her to the same state institution that housed her mother. It is 1924, and Carrie is eighteen. Three years later, her body poor and white lands in the U.S. Supreme Court as the judges decide the case Buck v. Bell. They declare compulsory sterilization laws constitutional, at which point the state of Virginia sterilizes Carrie and only then releases her. Emma, on the other hand, never gets out, dying at the Colony. I, diagnosed mentally retarded in 1966, imagine, yearn, stretch toward Carrie, judged feebleminded in 1924. So many bodies have vanished into the whirlpool of history. Carrie, I keep waiting for the histories to mourn, rage, reach toward you, your body as solid as your mother's hand on your shoulder. Both of you look steely eyed into the camera. You know the photo, you and Emma sitting outside at the State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. I imagine Carrie's voice poor, rough, southern. Imagine her head cocked. Imagine how she might tell this

title: On the Survival Mode in Cities A Comparison of Sister Carrie and Camel Xiangzi
abstract: Dreiser(Theodore Dreiser,1871 1945) 's Sister Carrie(1990) and Lao She 's(1899 1966) Camel Xiangzi(1936) are two clas sic novels of the last century,which depicts the early 20th century urbanization,with a profound insight into the survival mode of people during the process of urbanization.They not only reflects the process of urbanization,but also universal phenomenon and some issues dur ing the development of human society.With a comparison between the United States and China in the 20th century,the similarity of their background is obvious.And the survival mode of the hero and heroin embodies the fate of ordinary people struggling during a transitional society.The Heroes' mode of survival in the city as revealed in the novels,has some enlightening on the current process of urbanization in China.

title: The Decline of Morality The Metaphor Analysis of Desires in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
abstract: To analyze the morality loss of Carrie,the social context and Carrie's own desires are taken in to consideration.At theend of the paper,the analysis of several the metaphorical images is provided to help the reads understand the spiritual consolationof Carrie.

title: The Female Experience of the American Dream in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900)
abstract: The aim of the present article is to study American woman's experience of the American Dream in the turn of the twentieth century (the period known as the Progressive Era) through the analysis of the dreams of the main female character Carrie Meeber in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) Dreiser, known as the author of woman, explores in this novel the issue of woman within the urban environment, by presenting her as being modern, with materialistic dreams, which determined her faith and actions, and detached her from her morals and traditions in favor of money and fame.  Woman, the U.S.A. Progressive Era, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Materialism, Modernity, American Dream.