篇一 :《嘉莉妹妹》英语读后感

《嘉莉妹妹》英语读后感

Vivid Heroine

——On Sister Carrie

Carrie was such an ordinary rural girl at the beginning of the story. Sitting on the seat of a bus, she couldn’t help feeling exciting at the sight of the metropolis’ spectacle. She was impressed deeply by large crowd on the avenue, the spacious square or tall buildings. Far more different from other heroines, Carrie was not a plain pure angel like Snow-white, nor was she brave enough to be a heroine of revolutionist or even a reformer, nor was she so clever as to be a successful career woman who start from scratch.

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篇二 :嘉莉妹妹读后感英文

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, was raised in poverty and in a German-speaking environment. He left home for Chicago at age 16. After a period of odd jobs and a year at the University of Indiana, he became a Midwestern newspaper reporter and, in New York after 1894, a magazine feature writer. In 1892, married Sara White, but their marriage wasn’t happy, so they have been separated since 1909 and never officially divorced

Sister Carrie (1900), his first and still highly regarded novel, was withheld from general distribution because of it was supposed amoral, and its commercial failure plunged him into financial distress and mental breakdown. Some reasons which caused the difficulties of publish can be seen from the social background of the society of that time. At the time, United States is experiencing a rapid social change, it was transforming from free capitalism transition to the monopoly capitalism. The whole American literature was indulged in idealism, many writers preferred to describe the optimistic aspect of life. The novel is regarded as entertainment products; works is full of illusory ideal and covered by romantic color. The exploiter and exploitee lived a completely different life. The ugly phenomenon in the society was not reflected in literature works. In Sister Carrie, Dreiser truthfully reveals the dark side of the social life, and that’s the reason why the author constantly suffered from persecution. The novels have been classified as "banned", and can not be published in the America.

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篇三 :嘉莉妹妹英文读后感

Vivid Heroine

——On Sister Carrie

Carrie was such an ordinary rural girl at the beginning of the story. Sitting on the seat of a bus, she couldn’t help feeling exciting at the sight of the metropolis’ spectacle. She was impressed deeply by large crowd on the avenue, the spacious square or tall buildings.

Far more different from other heroines, Carrie was not a plain pure angel like Snow-white, nor was she brave enough to be a heroine of revolutionist or even a reformer, nor was she so clever as to be a successful career woman who start from scratch.

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篇四 :《嘉莉妹妹》英语读后感

《嘉莉妹妹》英语读后感

Vivid Heroine

——On Sister Carrie

Carrie was such an ordinary rural girl at the beginning of the story. Sitting on the seat of a bus, she couldn’t help feeling exciting at the sight of the metropolis’ spectacle. She was impressed deeply by large crowd on the avenue, the spacious square or tall buildings.

Far more different from other heroines, Carrie was not a plain pure angel like Snow-white, nor was she brave enough to be a heroine of revolutionist or even a reformer, nor was she so clever as to be a successful career woman who start from scratch.

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篇五 :嘉莉妹妹读后感

《嘉莉妹妹》读后感

----“美国梦”的扭曲与幻灭

何为“美国梦”?“美国梦”是指在美国,无论地位出身、种族和性别等方面有何差异,只要具备聪明、勤劳和坚韧不拔等必要条件,任何人都可能在相同的条件下,通过自己的诚实劳动与他人进行公平竞争,获得最终的成功和幸福,使自己的梦想变成现实。

嘉莉妹妹的创作背景是20世纪初处于变革中,被金钱至上的思想索充斥的美国大都市。女主人公利用不道德的手段成就她的财富与跻身上流社会的梦想。小说揭露了资本主义社会贫富悬殊的对立,抨击了美国大都市金钱万能、道德沦丧的残酷现实。

在嘉莉追求梦想过程中,她的梦想随着欲望的不断上升而发生改变。嘉莉较为典型地代表了当时一心想往上爬的美国下层人民。嘉莉为了追求自己的梦想先后做了推销员杜洛埃的情妇,后来由于更大的欲望又做了酒店经理赫斯渥的情妇,但是她的这种做法是有违当时社会的传统道德的。她的命运充满了偶然性,偶然中她认识了杜洛埃,偶然中她认识了赫斯特沃特,偶然中她登上了舞台饰演罗拉的角色,偶然中她在饰演中脱颖而出,成就了她的“美国梦”!虽然嘉莉最后实现了她的美国梦,但这是失败的, 因为她始终找不到自己所想要的幸福。物质上的充裕和精神上的匮乏使得她继续更深一层去寻找她所想要的东西。

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篇六 :嘉莉妹妹读后感

一. 故事的梗概

这本书讲述的是一个本性善良天真的农村姑娘为了摆脱穷苦只身一人来到芝加哥寻找幸福的生活,因为生活所迫不得不出卖灵魂和肉体,先后成为两个男人的情妇,最后与情夫私奔到纽约,一个偶然的机会成为红极一时的歌星,在流光溢彩的百老汇大街上实现了她一直梦幻的上流人士生活,然而在她拥有了一切之后,却始终没有找到幸福。

人物的特征

书中的赫斯特伍德是一个悲情人物,放弃了家庭,放弃了体面的工作,放弃了名誉和地位以及家财万贯,他居然偷了保险柜的钱带着嘉莉逃走了。更可悲的是,他成了一个穷人却不肯承认。他并没有摆脱过去奢华生活留给他的体面的自尊,以至于放不下架子为生计而工作,在身无分文的时候,在向女人伸手要钱的时候,甚至在冰冷的雪地里乞讨的时候,还在用奢华的回忆填补一个男人的自尊。剥离了阶级地位,剥离了华丽的服饰,剥离了尊严,赤裸裸的求生欲望体现的悲凉真真切切,最终他用乞讨来的一毛五分钱结束了自己的生命 因为它真实的反应了当时社会底层民众的疾苦生活,赫斯特伍德只是美国大街上无数个乞讨者之一,那个时候无数饥饿的流浪汉在乞讨,在呻吟,在风雪交加的夜晚等待住宿,等待食物。 阿姆斯,这个人物没有多少故事,却很重要。他有更高的智慧,超越了杜德艾,超越了赫斯特伍德,更重要的是他超越了嘉莉并且没有被她的曼妙的脸蛋和迷人的身材迷住。嘉莉在那里达到了她智慧的顶端,她再也没能力攀到更高,故事也就这样结局了。她拥有了她梦想的一切,钱财、美丽的服饰、尊贵的地位、无数人的追捧和最奢华的房屋,她已经成了一个红人,然而直到了终点,她迷失了。

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篇七 :《嘉莉妹妹》读后感

西奥多·德莱塞(1871~1945)美国杰出的批判现实主义小说家。1871年8月27日生于印第安纳州的特雷霍特镇,出生于破产小业主家庭,曾长期在社会底层劳动挣扎。19xx年,第一部作品《嘉莉妹妹》问世,引起轰动。此书通过农村姑娘嘉莉到芝加哥谋生而成为名演员的故事,揭露了资本主义社会繁荣的表面底下的失业、贫困和饥饿,对美国贫富对立的社会作了深刻的描写。《嘉莉妹妹》用巴尔扎克式的现实主义写成为美国文学开创了一个新的天地。它虽在美国被禁,后来却在英因出版。19xx年终于在美国再次出版。

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无论如何都不算是先锋人物的德莱塞,在美国文学史上的地位也许就只能显得这么尴尬。但他却以艺术的方法表现主人公对女人、宅第和艺术品的追求,旨在表现他崇尚人的本能和享乐,表现他对新兴的消费意识形态的赞同和宣传。在这种意义上说,《嘉莉妹妹》不是对资本主义制度的颠覆,而是对其进行宣传,因为人们对舒适和享乐的追求无疑会刺激经济进一步的发展。

此书讲的是漂亮而胆小,年轻无知,美丽聪明,爱慕虚荣,对家人故土充满了留恋之情,对大都市繁华生活的充满了幻想,嘉莉只身来到芝加哥谋生,去投奔她的姐姐,寻求新的生活。都市耀眼的万点灯火驱使她登上了去芝加哥的火车,但是她不知道那耀眼的光华掩盖了多少谎言、谬误、邪恶和伪善。为了生存先后成了德鲁埃、赫斯特伍德的情人,最后因机缘巧合而成了红级一时的女演员的故事。

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篇八 :嘉莉妹妹读后感

暑 假 读 书 笔 记

《嘉莉妹妹读后感》

一八八九年间,聪明、羞怯,?由于无知和年轻而充满了幻想的十八岁的嘉罗琳〃米蓓?(家里人叫她嘉莉妹妹),手提内装四块美元的仿鳄鱼皮手提包,离开故乡小城前往芝加哥。寒酸、凄惶,对未知的繁华充满热望,嘉莉,一个不折不扣的外来妹。西奥多〃德莱塞对此有着切肤之痛,他带着欣喜的目光和屈辱的眼泪小心翼翼地展开笔触,动人的情节便历历如在眼前。

?她刚到芝加哥,就像夜里吹来的一阵清新的空气一样新鲜,乡下的阳光依然在她眼里闪耀。?脱胎换骨的城市生活让嘉莉迅速地改变:?在这短短的瞬间,乡间的狭隘生活不知怎的就像一件外逃从她身上脱下来,替换她的则是充满种种奥秘的城市生活。?伊始,作者发自肺腑地说:?一个女孩子十八岁离家出门,结局只有两种,要么遇到好人搭救而越变越好,要么很快接受了大都市道德标准而越变越坏。在这样的环境中,要保持中间状态是不可能的。?这不仅是德莱塞个人生活经验的总结,也是上上世纪末美国社会为人处世的箴言。欲望的膨胀和环境的诱惑,而根本点在于前者。我们从那些概念式的句子研读急欲表达的内容。?如同许多凡夫俗子一样,本能和欲念在某种程度上说还是胜利者。??她完全听从自己的欲念摆布,不是走下决心要走的路,而

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