摘要
《嘉丽妹妹》讲述的是一个贫穷、充满欲望的农村女孩来到城市谋生,通过“堕落”的途径而“成功”地当上了名演员的故事;《珍妮姑娘》则叙述了一个贫穷、天性善良、甘愿牺牲自我的故事。她的“堕落”是为了拯救困境中的家庭。这两部小说虽然都是描写在商品社会、市场经济大潮下,两位女主人公人性的追求及其命运,揭露美国社会的贫富悬殊和道德沦丧。然而,德莱赛塑造的这两位女主人公:嘉丽和珍妮蕴含了两种不同的西方文学渊源,代表了西方文学传统中两种截然不同的女性自我意识的文学形象。
Sister Carrie is the story of a poor country girl full of desires who becomes “a fallen woman” in the city and rises to success as an actress; while Jennie Gerhardt is the story of a poor but good and admirable girl who sacrifices her own interests. Her“degeneration”is for the sake of her poor family. The author depicts the pursuits and fates of two heroines in the commercial society in order to debunk the striking differences between the poor and the rich and moral deterioration in America, but two heroines of Carrie and Jennie embody the two different origins of the Western literature and represent two female images of absolutely antithetical self-consciousness in Western Literary tradition.
出处
《辽宁师范大学学报（社会科学版）》
2007年第4期98-101,共4页
Journal of Liaoning Normal University(Social Science Edition)
