《嘉莉妹妹》是美国19世纪末20世纪初著名自然主义小说家西奥多·德莱塞备受争议的一部作品。它一扫当年美国文坛上维多利亚式矫揉造作、辞藻华丽、粉饰太平的恶习,开创了美国文学史上大胆写实、反映真实生活的新时代。自问世以来,这部小说几经沉浮,吸引了众多学者和评论家的眼球。这其中有从自然主义、现实主义、女性主义、消费思想等等方面来研究的,不同角度的研究给予了小说不同的解读和新的生命。当今社会,物质文明飞速发展,人们的精神世界相对空白,信仰缺失,欲望却在无限膨胀。繁华的都市里,又有多少嘉莉妹妹在一味追求自己的“美国梦”时,彻底迷失了方向,人性的贪婪不断吞噬着美好的灵魂。本文试图从人性的贪婪来诠释《嘉莉妹妹》的主题。 Sister Carrie is a controversial work by Theodore Dreiser, a famous naturalistic novelist in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It swept away the victorious Victorian rhetoric in the American literary world that year. It created a new era of bold and realistic reflection of real life in the history of American literature. Since its publication, the novel has experienced ups and downs, attracting the attention of many scholars and commentators. Among these, naturalism, realism, feminism, consumer thinking and so on to study, from different angles to give a different interpretation of the novel and a new life. In today’s society, the rapid development of material civilization, people’s spiritual world is relatively blank, lack of faith, desire is infinite expansion. In the bustling city, how many Sister Carrie lost their way when pursuing their own “American Dream,” and greed of human nature keeps devouring a beautiful soul. This article attempts to interpret the theme of Sister Carrie from the greed of humanity.