Seen From The "Sister Carrie" And "A Streetcar Named Desire" Human Nature Interpretation

The paper directs at two American classic works—Theodore Dreiser's masterpiece Sister Carrie and Tennessee Williams'favorite work A Streetcar Named Desire. Through detailed analysis of the texts, this paper further analyzes the common humanity of the typical characters in both works, and studies its formation from two writers'perspective of pessimistic humanity. With the hidden spiritual motivation of the typical characters shown, it explores the universal significance of the humanity beyond a certain time-space in human life including ours. And the paper also aims at studying the humanity influenced by consumption in virtue of French scholar Jean Baudrillard's social consumption ideology, and analyzing humanity contradiction in spiritual and materialistic pursuit by Freud's personality structure theory, even analyzing the sex orientation of typical characters in human nature by Feminist literary theory. Though the authors of both works live in the different age, writing background uncorrelated, the typical characters'disposition in their social performance shows the unusual similarity. Moreover, the two writers not only shape the typical characters'self-expression, narcissism and egocentrism tightly around the consumption principle, depict the humanity affected by hedonism in the same way, but also reveal the female compliant condition under the system of patriarchal society and simultaneously express their sympathy and understanding to the female.