Dreiser in 1941

Dreiser in 1943, the famous writer wrote to friends "5) senior citizen, critics would say:Want to know, mencken, you and I different, I was born poor. In November and December, I had no shoes to wear on his foot, to walk barefoot. I saw my dear mother eat hard, scared, is not here right now. Perhaps it is for this reason, no matter how much the price you have paid, no matter the somebody else will say, I always maintain a kind of social system, can make people - those who although humble people have the good life.This is to avoid military service from the son of German immigrants to the United States handicraft workers reflections on their own. Only from the literature to the literature of the form will only be so indifferent. Poverty makes the writer an eagle in complex social struggle, right from wrong.Light is poor and can't make a great writer. Dreiser and general writer, was that he had done since childhood the humble career, and youth in news and editing work, caused him to feel the pulse of The Times, make him a society's ears, eyes and nerves of The Times. He is not just a general understanding of the society, understand life, but with ordinary people laugh, cry together, so that deeper into society and life. He at the age of six or seven brothers and sisters to picking up coal cinder together, sometimes, in addition to small peptides and polenta couldn't eat anything else. Dreiser newspaper when he was thirteen years old, 16 years old to Chicago restaurant wash the dishes, after a metal appliances wholesale shop to look at the warehouse. At the age of eighteen, he got high school teacher on phil's funding, to read books a year at indiana university. No money again reading a year later, he returned to Chicago, for a real estatecompany work, send clothes for a laundry, after eight yuan wages every week. Only in this year, mother died, the writer later said: "our youth to an end."Dreiser when I was 20 years old began to write essay about Chicago, published in the daily news. The herald in Chicago that year, he found a position, distribution of toys for Christmas. Dreiser aspired to be a news reporter. Twenty-one years old, he become global daily reporter in Chicago, I pay 15 yuan a week. That year his first in the world journal published a short story "the return of genius. Since then he has been in the newspapers, as a magazine editor and editor-in-chief, at the same time writing short stories, poetry, drama and theater reviews. In 1899, twenty eight years old when he began to write "Sister Carrie", published in the second year. At that time, he served as the editor of a journal. Since the publication of Sister Carrie, he continued to act as editor. In 1904, the New York daily news newsletter editor, 1905, as a popular publications editor of Smith magazine, President of Broadway magazine in 1907, and other popular women's magazine editor.Career as a reporter and editor, in one hundred and twenty to help the writer is familiar with the human nature of the secret of the secret, the secret of life and society. To take just one example here. Dreiser's masterpiece, "an American tragedy, published in 1925, marked the realism (naturalist) victory in the United States, and the material and prototype of the book he when former editor in chief in 1906 (Smith magazine and journal of Broadway). Similar cases and according to the author, not one, but the back and forth as much as a total of 15 pieces, are criminals in pursuit of the American dream, in order to climb, theother PanGaoZhi, pay for her old lover comes. Is typical of dreiser's works is from life, and through his artistic fiction, the correspondent and writer works as real as life, so simple, that is aesthetic persuasive.Light is poor and familiar with life, of course also does not produce great writer. Dreiser so successfully, but also because of his courage to master had just produced the most advanced theory of social thought, philosophy and science. Ruthspencer's social Darwinism -- survival competition, superior bad discard, such theories as well as for the giants rob find theories according to, also can be used to explain why the rural girl (" Sister Carrie ") in the economic impact of tide, just left the countryside into cities, would not escape the fate of destruction; To become a literary master of the line, you must have inherited the predecessors of the strength, must stand to the predecessors' shoulder to climb up, in succession on the basis of innovation, create a new realm, the new heaven and earth, and for others to rushes out a new road. What is not in this case, there would be no great writer. Through the ages, how many writers, do and off will soon be forgotten by time. Partly because strength is poor, can't inherit, hence to die; More is not innovation, or have some sort of power from innovation, frighten he had to the past, you live, live up to the age, failed to live up to the people, also failed to live up to his boyhood ambitions. Dreiser so unlike general writer, is he can in inheriting the predecessors on the basis of innovation, to break the shackles, opened a new heaven and earth. The newsboy was born of the great writer, picking up coal cinder, do a menial job and study hard. From Shakespeare to Fielding, thackeray, from Emerson,Thoreau to Mark Twain, voltaire, Goethe to henrik Ibsen, Schopenhauer, from Darwin, Huxley to spencer's "first principles", the natural disposition is thick, learn widely and diligence, is amazing. Especially at the age of 23 (1894) worked as a reporter in coal Pittsburgh, he ran ran the police station, court to cover the news. During this period, dreiser was intoxicated with general insight of experience, is a great writer so can become a great writer. Here are dreiser, 24, a journalist in Pittsburgh wrote:The door of new life has a strong appeal, in front of me suddenly opened. This is an observation, thinking, who can feel. This is a can firmly, to grasp life, sensitive and have philosophical taste, heart, generous, and the joy of life is abundant. I'll and his hair, and his rusty nie, he more than Edison pena west wu and his training. Pull hair, and I walked into the palace next to the casino, in the palace bridge, overlooking the river water in despair, and from here we entered into a deals in antique shop... Due to the leather together from day to day to narrow and horror. ...... For me, it is a literary revolution. Because it's not just a Balzac grasp to live, found that the subject, and put these express out so brilliant, lively, and because he so passionately, to the sophisticated processing of the typical - in human society, politics, art, business is always thinking, and constantly pursuit of young people (pull steed nie, el, Lv Pengpo ray, it training) - in my opinion, how like myself... (I) it is easy to themselves and those who are always in pursuit of, aspiring young people - for his characters into an organic whole, I like him well. How amazing his skill, his solemn philosophy ', but that are not overstated. His literary world, society, politics, history, religionand so on various aspects processing so handy... Ah, have such insight, how amazing it is! Pittsburgh? St. Louis? Chicago? ...... In my own world, after all, I have new drama....... To my mind the two cities on the material conditions of similarity, and here can like him is to depict the vast heaven and earth, I am surprised.Say again:There are four or five months, I eat, sleep, dream, life, and he together. (Balzac) as well as his characters, and his ideas and his that city together.Dreiser wrote all this time, master of American literature is the Victorian style, howells, timid sven - specially positive express their life of the elites, traditional writing those living with a smile, those who advocate fine tradition, advocating gentleman's code of ethics of life. Just wait for dreiser to economic, social and ideological culture in the United States under the huge impact of the unique feeling, through the creative use of Balzac type of art law, wrote frequent the pursuit of human nature and destiny, wrote be attacked as "barbaric" and "immoral", write the real American people at all levels of social life and the society, wrote the authors of the people, especially young people's love of humanitarian, only to break the traditional elegant gentle.。