Recently, critics mainly focus on urban life。 American literature takes Sister Carrie as a major text of urban modernization。 The city life is including production and consumption in American life。

In China, Qu Qiubai wrote some articles to introduce Dreiser to Chinese people in the 1930s, which has attracted great attention in China。 Some Chinese critics show their interest about it。 They analyzes it from different aspects。 For example, Liu Jian’s On the Struggle and Growth of Sister Carrie in Marriage (the South of China Today 2010(12))mainly analyzes setbacks in Carrie’s marriage and struggles which explain the importance of Economic independence and independent personality。