Reflections on Sister Carrie

After reading Sister Carrie, my first feeling was that I didn't understand the book at all in junior high school. At that time, I had no concept of society and ugliness at all, only regarded Carrie as a heartless woman who was insatiable and full of contempt for her. So it seems that the older people get, the easier it is to accept vulgar and dirty things? Maybe. Originally, in this society, everyone needed tolerance and forgiveness for everything.

This book tells the story of a kind and naive rural girl who came to Chicago alone to find a happy life in order to get rid of poverty. Because of life, she had to sell her soul and body and become the mistress of two men. Finally, she eloped with her lover to new york, where, by chance, she became a smash hit singer and realized her dreamy upper-class life on colorful Broadway. However, after she had everything, she never found happiness.

It can be said that she stepped on the shoulders of two men and set foot on the temple of Phnom Penh. Actually, it is, but she didn't mean to. First of all, she is a little girl who likes beautiful clothes and loves vanity. She is uneasy inside. What is fatal is that she is beautiful. These two points make a man, a man with a little money and a little color, set up a ladder for her between poverty and glitz, and she lingers between conscience and dreams.

At that time, American industry and commerce developed rapidly. In order to maintain the customized immigration policy at that time, the United States changed from an idyllic country to an industrialized country. Capitalist values prevail, people become almost morbidly dependent on material, and materialistic culture blocks the spiritual channel, corrodes people's beautiful and simple feelings, and forms a spiritual desert. Although "desire" explains Carrie's motivation from the inside, it is the money worship and materialistic city that tempts Carrie and changes her fate from the outside. If she is guilty and immoral, it is the increasingly materialized and utilitarian society that should be criticized and cursed. She has to sell her body and soul and live a prostitute life that is not a prostitute.

Drouet was her first man and met her on the train to Chicago. Carrie suffered a lot in the workshop full of dust, noise and vulgar abuse, and finally chose Drouet who could give her more money. Although she knows what this means, she can't resist the temptation of beautiful clothes, warm houses and elegant tableware. In the process of going to Drouet, she didn't work hard, but any of her efforts were ultimately weak and pale. The helplessness of running for a living pushed her to the edge of social morality and spirit and threw herself into the arms of a man. Before meeting a richer and more respectable Hurstwood, she was content to be exposed to the beauty in her life. But she really didn't love Drouet. She soon realized his shallowness and didn't feel ashamed and ashamed at the moment of betraying and abandoning him. Carrie is smarter than Drouet. Once his money loses its charm, he can no longer control her. Of course, Drouet was not pitiful, because he was unworthy of falling in love. When Kelly became a star, he fooled around with another woman and wanted to get back together with her. From beginning to end, he never loved Carrie, just wanted to take her as an object of venting and showing off.

If there is love between Carrie and Hurstwood, then his money and position are matchmakers. Sadly, Kelly didn't leave a married man after finding herself cheated again and again. These are all things she doesn't want and make her angry, but she has to do it. Her vanity left a seed, and Hurstwood, who was in a mess, was wrong for a moment and ruined his previous reputation, status and wealth. He was cornered, and that's life. He put several jokes together, so he had a clever story. But once I left Chicago and everything before, Hurstwood's tragedy began. Broadway is a place where all the luxuries and luxuries in the world are gathered, where there are a group of people with the most decadent life, which encourages Carrie's desire for expansion. She knows the richer Mrs. Vance, she has been to the most gorgeous restaurant, and she knows the more meaningful Ames. These are the reasons why she left. Finally, one day, she didn't want to keep another man, so she left Hurstwood with 20 yuan for good.

Hurstwood in the book is a sad character, who gave up his family, decent job, reputation and status, and wealth. He stole money from the safe and ran away with Carrie. Sadly, he became a poor man and refused to admit it. He didn't get rid of the decent self-esteem left by his luxurious life in the past, so that he couldn't put down his airs and work for a living. When he was penniless, when he reached out to a woman for money, and even when he was begging in Leng Xue, he still filled a man's self-esteem with luxurious memories. When he was waiting for Carrie under the poster with Carrie hanging, hoping to beg her for a few cents to live, all he could think about in his vague consciousness was his hungry stomach, and he had no strength to maintain anyone's dignity. The fragility of human nature at that moment was heartbreaking. Deprived of class status, gorgeous clothes and dignity, his naked desire for survival embodies sadness and truth, and finally he ended his life with a dime he begged. This book was banned in the United States at the end of 19, because it truly reflected the miserable life of the people at the bottom of society at that time. Hurstwood is just one of countless beggars on the streets of America. At that time, countless hungry vagrants were begging and moaning, waiting for accommodation and food on a snowy night.

After reading Sister Carrie, I am always used to analyzing other people's tragic elements, whether it is articles, plays or real life. In fact, as long as others feel satisfied and happy, my sympathy and thinking are meaningless.

When I saw Hurstwood, I wanted to write that this man was doomed to the inevitable tragedy in his life. Although in the eyes of others, he has achieved something in his career, a happy family, loving husband and wife, and a beautiful and proud daughter. Their family is quite elegant to the outside world, so they are envied by some people and loved by some people. But in fact, for Hurstwood himself, he actually knows that as a hotel manager, he can't argue with others, he can't talk as he pleases, and he has some dogmatism, so he doesn't care about anything that he can't do. He has many desires, but he never shows them. No one can tell anyone, and no one cares about his desires. His wife is amiable, vain and flattering, which, when combined with others, is likely to be a complete tragedy. His daughter is more and more like his wife.

Hurstwood's love for Carrie became another tragedy. His strategy couldn't beat his wife, so he was kicked out of the house, with no money left and no way back to the hotel. Such a prestigious gentleman stole some money from the hotel and tricked Carrie into leaving Chicago. Unfortunately, his reputation can no longer make him another manager of a hotel in new york. Their lives are in a dilemma.

Is this a tragedy? He can't escape all this. I sympathize with him, but I don't understand him In Dwelling House, he is more tragic than Song Siming. But what if I think about it? What if I sympathize with it In fact, if he hadn't met Carrie, he might still be living in his own fairy tale world, unaware of the outside situation, proud of his material life and depressed about his spiritual world. As long as you don't think it's a tragedy, that's good. Some people say, "A tragic woman cheats her for a while, but a happy woman cheats her for a lifetime." This is also the reason. This man has lied to you all his life and made you happy all his life. That is happiness. There's no need to get to the bottom of it.

We often say that we should think about the meaning of life, and then the more we think about it, the more depressed we become, and the more we discover the meaninglessness of life and its tragic components. But if we muddle through in this respect and ignore it, then maybe there will be more happiness and happiness will stay longer. This is a white lie, isn't it? Kelly, she-I appreciate it. Don't women need independence? In the end, she wants to see through the beautiful love that people expect. She didn't accept the radiant Trouvat again, and she didn't choose anyone. She doesn't need such abstract things as people tell her. She was a little confused in life, but at least she survived. This is not a tragedy, even if I have no sympathy, and if Carrie doesn't have these opportunities, who can guarantee that she will have a better ending than this?