Chapter 4 American Naturalism
I.Background
II.Features
icance
It prepares the way for the writing of 1920s’ “lost generation” and T. S. Eliot.
IV.Theodore Dreiser
of view
(1)He embraced social Darwinism – survival of the fittest. He learned to regard man as merely an animal driven by greed and lust in a struggle for existence in which only the "fittest", the most ruthless, survive.
(2)Life is predatory, a "game" of the lecherous and heartless, a jungle struggle in which man, being "a waif and an interloper in Nature", a "wisp in the wind of social forces", is a mere pawn in the general scheme of things, with no power whatever to assert his will.
(3)No one is ethically free; everything is determined by a complex of internal chemisms and by the forces of social pressure.
4.Sister Carrie
5.Style
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