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An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
Today we confront the raw, panoramic social realism of Theodore Dreiser's devastating 1925 novel, An American Tragedy, a monumental work based on a sensational real-life murder case. The story follows Clyde Griffiths, a young, ambitious, and morally weak man consumed by the American Dream of wealth and social status, who becomes desperately torn between his pregnant, working-class girlfriend Roberta Alden and the alluring, wealthy debutante Sondra Finchley. . We delve into the central, horrifying dilemma: when Clyde schemes to kill Roberta in a lake, she accidentally drowns, leading to his…
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