Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2015)

On the Practical Significance of “Sister Carrie”

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Xiaolin Cai
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Xiaolin Cai
Available Online May 2015.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2015)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
May 2015
ISBN
10.2991/icadce-15.2015.39
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icadce-15.2015.39How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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