CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction . 1

  1.1 The Author

  1.2 Sister Carrie

2. Literary Review .3

3. Consumer Culture Reflected in Sister Carrie4

  3.1 Consumer Culture

  3.2 Consumptive Environment in Sister Carrie

  3.3 Consumptive View of Craving for Material Things in Sister Carrie 

 3.3.1 Craving for Clothes

 3.3.2 Desire for Residence

 3.3.3 Yearning for Recreations

  3.4 The Materialized Life-style in Sister Carrie

 3.4.1 Hurstwood’s Consuming Family

 3.4.2 Drouet’s Pleasure-seeking Life-style

4.Conclusion.9

Bibliography.10

Acknowledgments11