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Causes of Carrie’s Disillusionment with the American Dream

At the end od the 19th century,American monopolistic capitalism developed in its full forms.Economic crisis often broke,and the number of people out of work increased.Social wealth was accumulated into the hands of a few monopolistic capitalists.Most common people lived in poverty.They were longing for the life of upper cla and had a dream of pursing a luxurious and happy life.Carrie is one of such kind of people.Struck by the strong wave of the American dream, Carrie is naturally involved in this sort of illusion.What she hopes for is fame,money and love.At the beginning of the novel, she is a kind countryside girl and comes to Chicago with a dim dream of getting rich overnight.Later she becomes the mistre of Drouet and Hurstwood.Though in the end she is a famous stage star, she does not realize her dream of material comfort and spiritual love.There are many things that cause her dream to be disillusioned.The first one is her paivity.Paivity is one of the main characteristics for women.For thousands of years women have formed this habit under the control of men.The old tradition influences her thoughts and she gradually forms a timid and paive character.When her own rights are impinged, she dare not protest.As for Carrie, she shows he paivity in many cases.When she comes to Chicago in the train, she should keep silent to Drouet’s conversation.But her paivity makes her answer him.When Hurstwood first touches her hand with a paion she should hold them back and rebuke him.But her paivity stops her from doing so...All these decisions are caused by her paivity which makes her become the doll of Drouet and Hurstwood, so Drouet and Hurstwood can take advantage of her easily.The second one is her own desire for pleasure and material.At the end of the 19th century American industry developed very quickly and produced an abundance of goods.The government encouraged people to consume.The countryside girl Carrie is influenced by the maive force and hopes to poe as many things as she can.She is never satisfied with her clothes and living conditions.She uses these to create her ego and build her social status.When she gets to Chicago, she shabby clothes and small trunk decide her low social status.Dazzled by various advertisements and goods,she is pained by the fact that she is just an outsider.She can not poe what she likes.So her adventure in the cities shows her tirele efforts to become an insider.The third one is her position as the other.There is a long standing belief that women are inferior to men.They should listen to and obey men’s ideas.Their purpose for life is to please men.Therefore, when they do out they try to make up and put on beautiful clothes.They pay much attention to the popular mode and attempt to surpa the other women in clothes and appearance.The American Dream looks very beautiful but also reliable.It just gives people an illusion.Carrie’s tragedy is not only her own tragedy because she is only a representative of that time.Actually the whole society repeats her story:have a dream, pursue and lose it.Among the people,some try their best to work hard;some become disappointed and lose heart.No matter what they do, they American Dream is doomed to be ruined in the end.林丝丝

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