er Carrie was written and published also at the rise of American naturalism which means a particular genre of fiction that developed in the late 19th century America and associated principally with writers such as Jack London Stephen Crane Frank Norris and Theodore Dreise. 3 At the end of nineteenth century came a generation of writers whose ideas of the working of the universe and whose perception of the societys disorder led them to naturalism. A new and harsher realism naturalism was introduced to the United States literary naturalists spoke out against the ideas that literature should present what Howells called for the smiling aspects of life. Instead they attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment or heredity in depicting the extremes of life. American naturalists emphasized that world was amoral that men and women had no free will that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment that religious truths were illusory and that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and ablivion in death. 1. 3 Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution brought American people a value crisis. The 19th century was the time of industrialization. Serial changes made people feel they were conquering the world and obtaining their treasures. The surprising development made people feel too close to wealth and happiness. Then appeared small amounts of industrial giants and large number of poor people American value materialistic to the core. Living in such a society with such a value system the human individual is obsessed with a never end yet meaningless search for satisfaction of his desire. 2. The typical characteristics of naturalism in Sister Carrie In Sister Carrie I find out that some of its themes differ from those of other naturalistic works. 2.1 The desire instinct and the ifluence of environments Freud’s theory gives theoretic basis to Dreiser’s description of man’s desire. Freud considers man’s natural instinct as determination. To him man is a part of nature since man is a member of animals. Human mentality and action will forever be determined by instinct. Desire is just a genetic instinct in his opinion. This thesis covers Dreiser’s meaningful ideas--desire. Man’s behavior is 4 dominated by instincts desires needs and fear and environments cities and consumerism and chances. In the process of evolution man is not able to control instincts completely. Desire is considered hereditary and instinctive. In this novel most of the central characters are hurried by a desire of personal affirmation a desire they can neither articulate nor suppress. And Carrie Meeber is the representative. She sufferd from a need that her lives assume the dignity of dramatic form and they suffer terribly because they do not really understand it. Her view to money is “Money something everybody else has and I must get.” Theodore Dreiser 1979 P77 Drouet then becomes her first ladder. When Drouet give her money for the first time she hesitates. She knows clearly that no deep sinister soul with ulterior motives could have given her fifteen cents under friendship since “nature has taught the beasts of the beats of the field to fly