On the Practical Significance of “Sister Carrie”

DOI

10.2991/icadce-15.2015.39How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sister Carrie; Chinese social reality; Inspiration

Abstract

The novel “Sister Carrie”, was written by Theodore Dreiser, and the story happened in the late 19th century and early 20th, when American was in a great social transformation. From the context of the novel, the social background and the character’s personality, fate all these factors share great similarities with present Chinese social reality. In this paper, we don’t simple interpret the novel from the perspective of moral criticism or new Feminism but from the perspective of existentialism to analyze Carrie’s character, decision-making and her fate. Meanwhile, this thesis will combines the analysis with Chinese present society reality in order to provide some inspirations and references for lots of “Carries” in China.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xiaolin Cai
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TI  - On the Practical Significance of “Sister Carrie”
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2015)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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