ABSTRACT
The writer emphasizes on the details which embodies new consumption ideology. Then studies up predecessors’ analysis, working over Sister Carrie in the context of consumer society to reveal Theodore Dreiser’s complex attitude towards consumption ideology indicated in the novel—approve, propaganda as well as restraint, criticism. Readers can understand Sister Carrie and Dreiser better from a new perspective.
1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..1
1.1 Outline of Sister Carrie……………………………………………………………...1
2.Consumption ideology in Sister Carrie…………………..……………………….3
2.1 Consumer culture ……………………………………………………………….…3
2.2 Background of the rising of the consumer culture………………………………...3
2.3 The rising of consumer culture………………………………………………….....3
3. Embodies and effects of consumer culture in Sister Carrie……………………....5
3.1 Embodies of new consumption ideology…………………………………………...5
3.2 Influences of new consumption ideology…………………………………………11
4. The writer’s complex attitude……………………………………………………13
4.1 Ending of the heroines…………………………………………………………….13
4.2 Disillusion brought by consumption………………………………………………..14
5. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………16
Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………..17
References…………………………………………………………………………….18
