Theodore Dreiser’s Changing View on Women from Sister Carrie to Jennie Gerhardt

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1、Theodore Dreiser’sChanging View onWomen fromSisterCarrietoJennieGerhardt从《嘉莉妹妹》到《珍妮姑娘》论德莱塞女性观的变迁ContentsAcknowledgementsiAbstractinEnglishiiAbstractinChineseiiiI.Introduction11.1AboutDreiser’sLife11.2HisLiteraryAchievements2II.LiteratureReview52.1Critica

2、lReceptiononSisterCarrieandJennieGerhardtAbroad52.2CriticalReceptiononSisterCarrieandJennieGerhardtatHome6III.Dreiser’sViewonWomeninSisterCarrieandJennieGerhardt73.1Dreiser’sViewonWomenReflectedinSisterCarrie83.2Dreiser’sViewonWomenReflectedinJennieGerha

3、rdt11IV.VicissitudeofDreiser’sViewonWomeninSisterCarrieandJennieGerhardt144.1VicissitudeofDreiser’sViewonWomeninSisterCarrie144.2VicissitudeofDreiser’sViewonWomeninJennieGerhardt19V.Conclusion22WorksCited24Theodore Dreiser’sChanging View onWomenfromSiste

4、rCarrietoJennieGerhardt[Abstract]TheodoreDreiseroccupiesanimportantpositioninmodernAmericanliterature.SisterCarrieandJennieGerhardtarehistworepresentativeworks.Atfirst,bothCarrieandJenniearetwopuregirlswhowanttochangetheirpoorlife.However,bothofthembecom

5、emistressesinordertochangetheirterriblesituation,andtheirbehaviorsdisobeythetraditionalvalueswhichrefertomoralcodesandmoresthatarepasseddownfromgenerationtogenerationwithinacommunity.ThisthesisistomakeananalysisofDreiser’schanging view onwomen.Dreisermak

6、esuseofCarrieandJennie’stragedytorevealhisvaluesonwomenwhicharedifferentfromthetraditionalvalues.HepointsthatwomenlikeCarrieandJenniehavetherighttosatisfytheirmaterialpursuitsandspiritualpursuits.Theyshouldnotdependonmantofindtheirself-esteem.However,mak

7、ingacomparisonbetweenSisterCarrieandJennieGerhardt’sending,whileCarriebecomesasuccessfulactressbyhereffortsandopportunities,sheisdisillusionedspiritually;whileJennielostherrelatives,daughterandlovers,sheiscontentedspiritually.Dreiserchangeshisviewonwomen

8、fromaffirmationoffemalestruggletoaffirmationoffemaleself-sacrifice;itwasasignofhisregressivefeminineconsciousness.[Keywords]Carrie;Jennie;traditionalvalues;viewonwomen从《嘉莉妹妹》到《珍妮姑娘》论德莱塞女性观的变迁[内容摘要]西奥多·德莱塞（TheodoreDreiser，1