Dreiser Collection (set of 4 Volumes in Total)
by Bp
About This Novel
"Sister Carrie": Carrie, an 18-year-old country girl, takes a train to Chicago to find a better life. She met the salesman Drouet on the train. After arriving in Chicago, she lived with Drouet and met the hotel manager Hurst Water through him. Hurstwood became obsessed with her and the two became lovers. In order to get Carrie completely, Hurstwood stole 10,000 yuan in cash from the hotel cabinet and ran away with Carrie. After settling in New York, Hurstwood was unable to be as successful as before, and his situation became worse and worse. He fell into unemployment and became a beggar, and committed suicide; while Carrie left him after getting an acting job in the theater and became a popular actor, but she was not happy. "Genius" is Dreiser's masterpiece. It accuses the destruction of art by capitalist society through the degradation of a young painter. The life experience of the protagonist Eugene Vitra puts forward the relationship between artists - that is, people with special geniuses - and life, and society, and how to reconcile the contradiction between the special sensitivity and special needs of geniuses and the orthodox norms of society. "An American Tragedy" makes a strong and painful indictment of capitalist society through the emergence and disillusionment of Clyde's "American Dream", the formation and development of his egoistic outlook on life and hedonistic thoughts, and his depression, struggle, degradation and destruction. This tragedy is not so much a tragedy of personality and humanity as it is a tragedy of an era and country based on egoism.
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