电影《嘉莉妹妹》是根据西奥多·德莱赛的小说《嘉莉妹妹》拍摄的,故事将背景设置在19世纪末20世纪初的美国。当时的美国正经历着新资产阶级崛起的巨大变革。一切以物质满足为目标的价值观和工业化的出现对人们的传统生活方式产生了前所未有的冲击。嘉莉正是作为这个时期女性的典型代表被塑造的,她不满足于被困在穷苦的乡下,虽然当时对家乡非常依恋,年仅18岁的嘉莉毅然决然地选择奔向一个对她来说完全陌生的城市去追求 The movie Sister Carrie is based on Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie, setting the backdrop to the United States from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The United States at the time was experiencing a tremendous change in the rise of the new bourgeoisie. All the values ​​and industrialization aimed at material gratification have had an unprecedented impact on people’s traditional ways of life. Carrie was shaped as a typical representative of women of this period, she was not content to be trapped in a poor countryside, although was very dependent on his hometown at that time, only 18-year-old Carrie resolutely chose to run toward her Said completely strange city to pursue