about Sister Carrie

Through the tragedy of Carrie being eroded by the decadent capitalist society, the work reveals the immorality of American society and the decline of bourgeois morality. The novel is set in the American society in the 1880s and 1890s, reflecting the reality of this era. At that time, the capitalist economy of the United States was developing rapidly, and the bourgeoisie advocated that everyone had the "natural right" to "survival, freedom and the pursuit of happiness", and that "through personal struggle, everyone can get rich". Through the miserable life of the workers in the shoe factory and the strike struggle of the tramway workers, the work raises the major issues of the disparity between the rich and the poor and class antagonism, exposing the above-mentioned lies. The work is also profound in pointing out the spiritual degradation of American society, and the petty bourgeoisie like Carrie and other working people are often corrupted by moral corruption. However, the author ignores the connection between the spiritual degradation of the bourgeoisie and the capitalist system, and fails to see the reality that the struggle of the workers can change this situation, thus bringing about a defect in the deepening of the ideological nature of the work. Carrie is the image that the work strives to create. The work reveals the reasons for her fall: in the society where the law of the jungle is strong, Carrie is the victim of abuse and play by the rich, and her fall should be held responsible by the society which is a hundred times worse than her; Carrie's pursuit of material comforts is the subjective cause of her fall. Carrie saw that in a society like America it was impossible to become rich by honest labor alone, and she could not resist the temptation of the bourgeois way of life to compromise. Her ideological weakness made her go along with the society, and she jumped halfway into the mud pit. The image of Carrie is typical, and her tragedy is the tragedy of a part of the petty bourgeoisie who are divorced from reality and superstitious about their own luck and carry on their personal struggles. Although there is an element of chance in Carrie's success, the author wants to show that even if you have material comforts like Carrie, you can't really be happy: She could not get rid of the past poverty and the suffering of her sisters tortured her soul, and more clearly saw that "in this metropolis, the relationship between people is cold", everything is so false, and there is "no happiness in life." The work uses the traditional realistic creation method in art, and strives to make a true and typical description of the environment and characters. The work is very successful in the description of details, for example, the description of the "rocking chair" appeared more than 20 times, Carrie sat in the rocking chair to sway - "crooning, dreaming", the image of her real thought activities and personality characteristics.