通过比较美国自然主义作家西奥多·德莱塞的小说《嘉莉妹妹》与《美国悲剧》在故事背景与人物刻画的异同,透视作者笔下20世纪初的美国社会在巨大经济变革中普通人的挣扎与抉择,了解作家对当时美国社会物质世界的困惑与精神领域的迷失所进行的探索与思考。 By comparing the similarities and differences between the stories and characters depiction of Theodore Dreiser’s novels Sister Carrie and American Tragedy in the American naturalist writer, the author analyzes the similarities and differences between American societies in the early 20th century and the ordinary people in the great economic transformation Struggling and making decisions and understanding the writer’s exploration and reflection on the perplexity and loss of the spiritual field in the material world of American society at that time.