《嘉莉妹妹》发表于1900年,时年,西奥多·德莱赛29岁,这时的他业已从贫困中苦苦挣扎的城市谋生者成长为拥有自己独特视角观察和记录社会的文字工作者,他的人生观随着他的经历在不断漂移、摆动、校正中已趋于平稳。所以,《嘉莉妹妹》集中呈现了德莱赛对他正在经历的美国社会中个人命运、社会形态、人际关系深入思考后的判断与取向。 Sister Carrie was published in 1900, when Theodore Dresser was 29, when he had grown from a struggling urban survivor living in poverty to a text with his own unique perspective on viewing and documenting society Workers, his outlook on life as his experience continues to drift, swing, correction has stabilized. Therefore, Sister Carrie concentrates on the judgment and orientation of Dresser after thinking deeply about personal destiny, social form and interpersonal relationships in the American society that he is currently experiencing.