论《嘉莉妹妹》的自然主义特色

Naturalism Characteristic of SISTER CARRIER

西奥多·德莱塞是美国杰出的自然主义作家之一,1900年发表的《嘉莉妹妹》是他的成名作。作品具有鲜明的自然主义风格,注重环境描写,强调客观环境对主人公性格命运发展的影响。德莱塞以他的一个姐姐的真实经历作为小说的背景材料,小说贯穿了自然主义的 真实性原则,深刻地揭示与批判了当时美国社会的道德沦丧及资本主义道德的虚伪。

Theodore Dreiser is one of the outstanding American naturalistic writers, who, in 1900, published his first successful novel, Sister Carrier. The novel has the distinctly naturalistic features. Dreiser paid special attention to the descriptions of theobjective environments, also the effects of the environments on the characters and the fate of the hero or heroine. Besides, based on the true experience of his one sister, by the principle of the 揟ruth?in the naturalism, Dreiser profoundly revealed and criticized the moral degeneration of the American society and the moral hypocrisy of the capitalism.