《嘉莉妹妹》是美国20世纪自然主义作家西奥多·德莱塞的代表作。小说以19世纪末二十世纪资本主义发展鼎盛时期的美国为背景,主要描述了一个农村女孩嘉莉在大都市芝加哥,为了追求物质和幸福几经波折,最终成长为一个大明星的心路历程。她在在本文主要从女性主义角度,从嘉莉初步形成自我、自我沦丧和重建自我三个方面,仔细解读嘉莉从依附到独立的成长过程,感受女性意识从萌芽到觉醒的艰难历程。 Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of Theodore Dreiser, a naturalist writer in the 20th century in the United States. The novel, based on the United States of the heyday of capitalism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mainly describes Caroline, a rural girl, who, in the metropolitan Chicago, pursues the twists and turns of material and happiness and eventually grows into a celebrity. In this article, from the perspective of feminism, she begins with Carrie’s initial self-formation, self-destructiveness and self-rebuilding. She carefully interprets the difficult journey Carrie inherits from attachment to independence and feels the awakening of female consciousness from embryo to awakening.