德莱塞是20世纪上半叶美国处于工业化转型时期的重要代表作家,有学者认为他早期的作品已经具有鲜明的批判倾向,他在1920年代的创作,则标志着美国现实主义小说在新的历史时期的深化和发展。尽管美国文学界对“自然主义”这一概念的理解和运用至今仍存在许多混淆与模糊之处,但从德莱 Dreiser was an important representative writer of the United States in the period of industrialization transformation in the first half of the 20th century. Some scholars think that his early works have a clear tendency of criticism. His creation in the 1920s marked the new history of American realism novels The deepening and development of the period. Although there is still a lot of confusion and ambiguity in the understanding and application of the concept of “naturalism ” in the American literary world,