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美国著名女作家薇拉·卡瑟以自己独特的艺术手法描写了美国历史上两个她亲身经历过的时期:西部开发时期与本世纪20年代的经济繁荣时期。卡瑟在西部拓荒老的奋斗经历中体会到人类争取进步过程的艰难与伟大,在对拓荒者的歌颂中她寄托了自己的全部理想与追求。随着西部开发时用的结束与第一次世界大战后美国经济繁荣时期的开始,卡瑟的创作发生了根本性的变化。战后美国社会普遍的理想破灭与精神空虚的思想状况与人们对金钱的疯狂追求使卡瑟对现实感到困惑,对前途产生了绝望,这种情绪深深地影响了她这个时期的创作,尤其明显地体现在这个时期的代表作《教授的房子》一书中。在这些作品中,卡瑟暴露了资本主义社会的诸多弊端,表现了由于拜金主义思潮的影响,青年人为没有精神追求而彷徨,中年人因理想丧失而痛苦,人与人之间只有赤裸裸的利害关系,社会只受金钱的支配与摆布,读者看到这些,会象卡瑟一样产生一个疑问:难道这便是千百万年来人类前赴后继、奋斗不已所争取到的最高境界吗?
The famous American writer Vera Catherine uses her own unique artistic techniques to describe two periods she has experienced in American history: the period of economic development in the western region and the 1920s. In the pioneering struggle of the west, Cather sensed the hardship and greatness of mankind’s progress in seeking progress. In the praise of pioneers, she placed all her ideal and pursuit. With the end of western development and the beginning of the period of economic prosperity in the United States after the First World War, Cather’s creation has undergone fundamental changes. The common ideals of the post-war American society were shattered and the ideological state of spiritual emptiness and people’s craving for money made Cather confused reality and despair of the future, which deeply influenced her creation of this period, especially Obviously reflected in the masterpiece of this period, “Professor’s House” in a book. In these works, Kasey exposed many shortcomings of capitalist society and showed that due to the influence of the money-worshiping mentality, young people are perplexed by the lack of spiritual pursuit, middle-aged people suffer from the loss of ideals, and only naked people Interests, society is only dominated by the money and the mercy of the reader to see these, like Czer generated the same question: Is this thousands of years after humans come and go, struggle endless striving to reach the highest state it?